Editorial

Both to be losers if deterioration is not arrestedDespite the offstage meetings between the National Security Advisers of Pakistan and India, a mitigation of hostilities between the two countr

Pakistan’s net forex reserves now in the red?The International Monetary Fund has spoken and an oracle is not needed to decipher what it predicts and what the future holds for the country’s

MML’s registration redoubles distrust abroadPakistan is presently in the eye-centre of many political storms, but there is one looming on the horizon with the potential to develop into a des

Need for enhanced Pak-Afghan-US understandingThe complacency generally prevailing regarding terrorist strikes should end after the suicide attack on a police check post in Raiwind on Wednesda

Implications for PakistanAlready Rex Tillerson’s twitter sendoff, in typical Trump style, and elevation of CIA Director Mike Pompeo to secretary of state has halted the slide in Brent crude,

Can Shahabaz Sharif thread the needle?Only a realistation of the ground realities can enable the PML-N to live to fight another day. The party must have realised by now that as far as the case

And the sad state of democracyShahabaz Sharif has taken over the captaincy of the ruling party at a testing time. He is also likely to be the PML-N’s nominee for the office of the PM. His p

With the help of the magic wand For PML-N everything was hunky dory with the party and its three coalition partners having 46 solid votes.  All that they  needed was seven extra votes to<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/03/13/ppp-and-pti-snatch-victory-from-the-jaws-of-defeat/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Close Pak-Iran ties hostage to extraneous factorsThe Iranian foreign minister, a shrewd diplomat who engineered the Iran nuclear deal with the West against overwhelming odds, is on a three day

Games politicians play Even as the race for Senate chairman/deputy chairman springs its fair share of surprises, as the election itself before it, there is little surprising about the behaviour of most<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/03/12/the-senate-circus/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Fueling extremism Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui has a knack for making controversial decisions and statements that can range from criticising the Army Chief on one end to declaring the celebration of Valentines<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/03/11/ihcs-judgement/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Surprises that await the parties Unexpected developments witnessed before and during the Senate elections  make one wonder if similar  surprises will characterise the general elections schedu