Editorial

Implications for the campaignYet another charged Ch Nisar press conference opens the floodgates to yet more speculation about the PML-N leadership, especially Maryam Nawaz’s role, just as th

Need to go beyond targeting a governmentNational Accountability Bureau (NAB) had gone into hibernation under its previous DG and thus lost the people’s confidence.  Justice (rtd) Javed Iqbal howe

To what end? There is rarely a shortage of depressing events in Pakistan ranging from the surreal to downright nauseating. Given the freedom our media now enjoys these issues are covered and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/02/11/senseless-censorship/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Government departments defy NAB requests for case recordsIn western democracies where rules of the political game are scrupulously followed, or in a society where rule of law prevails, a well-

Dangerous trendsThe Senate is also called the House of Federation to reinforce the idea that the chamber symbolises the federation. Unlike the National Assembly where representation is based o

Put a stop to it before it is too late Pakistani establishment and society have kept their eyes closed to religious vigilantism too long. Mashal Khan’s brutal lynching and murder show how<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/02/09/religious-extremism-is-the-enemy-within/" title="Read more" >...</a>

US-Pak ties struck in a rigid grooveA high-level briefing on Tuesday by two senior US bureaucrats to Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington and officially released proceedings of 20

Cui bono?With MQM’s different factions still stalemated till Wednesday night, Farooq Sattar’s spin, that this is a ‘difference of opinion not a division’, has lost its shine. Rumours t

Judges also need self-disciplineNawaz Sharif is convinced that the evidence of financial malfeasance produced against him before the Accountability Court cannot be refuted easily and he is lik

PPP’s Mochi Gate rhetoric a rose-tinted retreat from realityThe small, historic ground that hosted political luminaries and fostered anti-government movements in its heyday, was the symbolic

And civil-military relations Pakistan is required today to take crucial decisions some of which are bound to affect its future. It is under pressure from the US over its Afghan policy. Failing<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/02/07/pm-abbasis-interview-with-bloomberg/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Moderation is the way outThe PML-N leadership continues to ratchet up its rhetoric against the judiciary. At his Jaranwala rally Nawaz Sharif questioned the legitimacy of disqualifying a lead