Editorial

Defuse the situation before it’s too late There is no end to complaints from politicians, media persons and civil society activists against what is going on in the name of fair and free elections.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/22/towards-confrontation-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>

A mammoth task for the incoming government Back in 2013 the PPP government got a fair bit of criticism for handing over a complete mess of an economy to the incoming PML-N.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/22/unstable-economy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Disaster-affected people need immediate succour The 7,253 known glaciers of Pakistan, earth’s biggest ice pack outside the Polar Regions, while a valuable source of water for domestic and cultivation purposes, are turning<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/20/glacier-melting-in-gilgit-baltistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>

What is clear and what remains vague There is an agreement among all election surveys that the PTI has made a headway in its public rating. Where the surveys differ is the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/20/the-straws-in-the-wind/" title="Read more" >...</a>

And the dangers of turning deaf When different people with altogether different interests and backgrounds start raising an issue with a sense of urgency, one can brush it aside only at the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/20/the-talk-of-the-town/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Fate of the election Quite suddenly, it appears, Imran Khan is ‘not hearing positive news’ about the election. Could it just be a coincidence that such news corresponded with thinner and smaller<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/20/imrans-concerns-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>

The way to hell is paved with good intentions For a number of years after the revival of democracy in 1988 the two party system prevailed in Pakistan. The 1990s however saw<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/19/harking-back-to-charter-of-democracy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Matter of shame As if PIA wasn’t controversial enough already, now there is the matter of the DG CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) allegedly taking a group of friends for a special tour<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/19/pia-problems-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Renewed optimism for Afghan peace talks For the American leadership, the unprecedented scenes of harmony and goodwill that accompanied the June Eidul Fitr ceasefire and fraternal interaction between Taliban fighters, government soldiers<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/18/in-the-spotlight-again/" title="Read more" >...</a>

By inducting extremists into electoral fray By encouraging sectarian extremists and groups with terrorist affiliations to contest the elections the ECP has done a disservice to parliamentary system. That this has happened<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/18/weakening-parliamentary-democracy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Fiscal discipline aborted after last bailout programme Like the PPP regime preceding it, the PML-N government completed its five year term recently despite stutters and hiccups, euphemistically speaking, the events being regarded<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/17/back-on-the-imf-trail/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Sowing the seeds of political instabilityBy the time people go to cast their votes on July 27, the electoral exercise would have become widely suspect in the eyes of the neutral observers and