Editorial

War of the Roses, the New SeasonBy 2008 both the PML-N and PPP had forgotten that they had signed the Charter of Democracy binding them to take a number of important measures and forbidding t

From Faizabad interchange to Punjab’s capital cityThe September 17, 2017, NA-120 by-election was the political weathervane warning of unsettled climatic conditions ahead in the domestic elec

Remembering a colossus with clay feetZulfiqar Ali Bhutto brought politics which had so far been confined to drawing rooms to the common man. In the process he endowed millions with a realisati

Delimitations and election The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has rightly warned against creating controversy over the delimitation exercise even as it received 1,286 objections to the constituencies that were changed to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/05/ecp-warning/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Tit-for-tat responses should be shunnedSince the hardline BJP’s ascent to power in May 2014, relations between the two neighbours have plummeted, hitting alarming lows not expected of nation

And the dice is loadedAs the last year ended, the pundits were widely predicting that the PML-N would once again sweep the elections albeit with a smaller margin. On January 2, as if out of th

PM Abbasi’s Kabul visit on April 6 part of concerted effortsThe ball, not of the cannon munitions’ variation but metaphorical and pacifist, was first set rolling by Afghan President Ashraf

From stone pelting to armed struggleThe figures reveal the facts. 13 militants, three soldiers and four civilians were killed in Shopian on Sunday. Had these been well-trained and well-armed j

And explains… If the back-and-forth between PML-N and the chief justice has become so predictable it is because they are, largely, just going round in circles. Once again the prime minister held<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/04/02/cjp-explains/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Everybody has a pointHow typical that the Senate, so soon after its election process, is occupied with matters that concern the top individuals of top parties and are not connected, in any way

One step forward, two steps back?Pakistan and India have agreed to end harassing each other’s envoys. The Indian High Commissioner says the two countries can raise the bilateral trade to $30 bi

And where we stand in our war on terrorismA state of denial over the existence of the savage terrorist group Islamic State (IS) has persisted in Pakistan since the group’s emergence in neighbour