Editorial

KP-FATA union plan runs into snagsThe fate of tribal people has been uncertain since 2015 when FATA reforms committee was first set up, its findings submitted to the PM in 2016, and approved

This close to the electionChief Justice Saqib Nisar did not let the Sindh government down, at least, when he delivered a grilling to the Punjab chief secretary regarding the matter of unsafe d

Politicians should shift from pressure to persuasion modeWith PPP withholding its reservations on the provisional Census Report, the Senate has finally passed the Delimitation of Constituenci

Need for a consensus policyOne hour of briefing. Three hours long question, answer session in the Senate Committee of the Whole House. During the last few months Senators had been raising a nu

National Action Plan gets new lease of life One area in which the problem-prone incumbent government really needed to ‘do more’ lay in the realm of NAP, and in the stern implementation<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/20/coordinated-efforts-long-haul/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Counting chickens before they are hatched Nawaz Sharif returned from London quietly on Saturday and preferred not to talk to media. Sharif’s close adviser Pervaiz Rashid has meanwhile provi

Troubled US-Pak-Afghan triangle Since long, Pakistan is poised at a ‘crossroads’ at any given moment in time. But the crossroads were never so defining, the dangers of taking the wrong fork so<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/19/needed-a-consensus-on-foreign-and-security-policy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Amid controversy and conspiracySo, Nawaz finally lets at least one cat out of the bag. He’s back and, along with facing the reference, he’ll personally spearhead a ‘movement for rule of

Minorities always in the crosshairsYet another terrorist attack targeting minorities in Quetta, despite the many successes of Zarb-e-Azb and Rudd-ul-Fasaad, raises the usual questions. One, ho

Whither jurisprudence?   The people of this country joined hands in defence of the judiciary hoping that independent judges would help enforce the rule of law and improve the judicial system mi

Few lessons learned             Apart from being one of the most horrific, brutal and tragic terrorist attacks in the history of the country the Army Public School (APS)<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/17/aps-three-years-on/" title="Read more" >...</a>

A lifeboat for PML-N On Friday, two separate benches of the SC delivered verdicts in cases involving leaders of two major political parties. Both verdicts would have important bearing on nati