Editorial

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

Proposed five-party electoral platform seems an anomalyReligious parties in Pakistan present an inexplicable paradox. With support mostly from the seminaries under their control, they can pro

And that too in the midst of the election campaign With a steep fall in oil prices in 2014, the US dollar started strengthening. This was the time when the PML-N government<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/14/dars-legacy-comes-to-haunt-pml-n/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Defence cooperation Defence Minister Khurram Dastgir’s proposal to visiting Saudi Deputy Defence Minister Mohammad bin Abdullah al Aeysh – that the Kingdom and Pakistan sign an all-encompassing defence and strategic pact –<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/14/pak-saudi-ties/" title="Read more" >...</a>

PM Modi accuses Pakistan of manipulating Gujarat election Perhaps taking his hallucinatory cue from the 2017 US Presidential election which Russia allegedly engineered to defeat Hilary Clinton by hacking and planting fake<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/13/fantastical-flight-of-fancy/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Pakistan has to be unwaveringly impartial in Saudi-Iran ties It is metaphorically like running with the hares and hunting with the hounds simultaneously, but Pakistan has so far proved adroit

PML-N and the forthcoming electionsWith elections due within months, there seems to be no end to PML-N’s woes. First it was the PTI, then the court cases and now a section of the religious l

Bad policy or smart strategy?Ever since Nawaz’s ouster PML-N seems to have adopted a questionable twin strategy of bringing state institutions into disrepute and allowing serious, sometimes

OIC responseWhen Turkish President Erdogan warned of consequences just before the Jerusalem decision – immediate OIC conference in Istanbul and possible diplomatic cutoff with Israel – he

Effective measures need to be taken immediatelyPakistan is one of the lowest banked countries in the world. According to Global Findex 2014 only about 13% of the population has conventional bank a

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”Lahore with a population of 1.13 million badly needs an efficient and decent transport system. The initiative taken by Shahbaz Sharif was therefore

PML-N cannot be forced to resign After the collapse of the PPP in Punjab as a result of Zardari’s own policies the party chief is trying to clutch at any straw that<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/09/much-ado-about-nothing-7/" title="Read more" >...</a>