Editorial

And petroleum prices Forcing a Rs4.3 decrease in petrol price after a Rs7.5 increase will hardly bring much relief to the common man, something that obsesses the chief justice, but ordering an<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/09/oil-prices/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Setting up judgment dayNot returning is not really an option for Nawaz or Maryam. Not only would that end Nawaz’s political relevance forever – not that there’s much left – but there i

Need to return home, also to do soul searching Issuing appeals to the PML-N workers from London to come out in his support won’t help Nawaz Sharif. The past experience shows the party<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/08/nawaz-sharif-in-the-belly-of-a-whale/" title="Read more" >...</a>

And those less looked at Seven persons, twenty-nine ‘fake’ bank accounts, a small bank with a politically connected president and 35 billion rupees worth of suspicious transactions: surely this does not pass<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/08/lawais-arrest/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Absconding, non-performing MPs get short shrift from constituentsVoters in several places are questioning their representatives over their performance, irrespective of political party. It see

A desperate move for political survivalNawaz Sharif has decided to return to the country and continue his fight till the people of Pakistan are freed of what he calls “the slavery imposed o

If you can’t beat them, join themThe PTI had a windfall of electables this time who decided to bet on the party considered to be close to the army and judiciary. A party candidate from Gujra

What about priorities?Strangely, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has suddenly decided not to arrest election contestants till after July 25. Cases of former foreign minister Khwaja As

And the long, long hangoverMore than four decades after Gen Zia’s Operation Fair Play, the carefully planned coup d’état that removed, quite literally, the country’s most popular electe

And the declining authority of the elected governments The PML-N is fighting elections at a time when it is at loggerheads with the establishment. What has harmed the party most is the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/07/05/the-second-transfer-of-power/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Public money, but not rainwater, goes down the drainThe one and only Khadim-e-Aala pledged to transform Lahore into the Paris of the East, and no doubt convinced in his fevered imagination of

Whatever its form, they’ll like to have a weak governmentDespite the PML-N leadership being in hot water many thought two months back that the party stood a chance to win majority seats in N