CommentAfter the indictments
And delaying tactics The Sharifs clearly invested considerable effort and time, not just in court, to delay the indictment. The lawyer-mob outside the accountability court the other day – an ominous throwback<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/10/20/after-the-indictments/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Oct 20, 2017
CommentThe rabblerousing Nawaz Sharif and the PML-N
A square peg in a round hole If anyone is driving a wedge in the family, as claimed by Maryam in a recent tweet, it is not the media. It is instead the policy being pursued by Nawaz Shari
Oct 19, 2017
CommentDrone implications
And Pak-US relations Islamabad was more than happy, naturally, to see a US drone take out the notorious Jamaat-ul-Ahraar (JuA) chief Umar Khalid Khorasani in Paktia on Tuesday. Pakista
Oct 19, 2017
CommentSecurity and development challenges
Mixed indicatorsGeneral Bajwa’s remarks about the state of the economy on Wednesday last had drawn off the cuff response from Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal which led to a rejoinder from the ISPR
Oct 18, 2017
CommentAn Intensifying UAV campaign
Details of latest drone attack shrouded in mysterySo far, conflicting and confusing reports have emerged concerning the four US drone attacks on Monday and Tuesday that need further official verif
Oct 18, 2017
CommentThe moot in Muscat
And the formidable headwinds The Quadrilateral Cooperation Group (QCG) comprising Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, and China held its first meeting in January 2016 and the fifth
Oct 16, 2017
CommentTrump’s dangerous gamble
Rejection of Iran nuclear deal to open a Pandora’s Box The 45th US President has kept his nation and the world on tenterhooks since assuming office with his sensational tweets, flip-flo
Oct 16, 2017
CommentIn a period marked by tension, strictly follow the rules of business
It won’t do dissing one another The hullabaloo over the IB having allegedly prepared a list of 37 legislators suspected of having links with terrorist outfits had hardly subsided when a
Oct 16, 2017
CommentThe Kurram blast
Need to ramp up anti-terrorist operationsTwo days after the army recovered an American-Canadian family from the kidnappers when they crossed into Kurram from Afghanistan, four FC personnel, includ
Oct 16, 2017
ColumnsOctober memories
Problem with learning lessons Coup anniversaries naturally raise poignant memories. For the duration of the so-called decade of democracy – the ‘90s – everybody talked about the damage of Zia’s<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/10/15/october-memories/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Oct 15, 2017
CommentEconomy and security
Whose business is it? Rather than the back-and-forth regarding whose business it is to talk about the economy, etc, both civil and military leaders are better advised to accept that sustainab
Oct 15, 2017
CommentAfghanistan again
Nothing’s changed, really Not much has really changed, or is going to change, in Afghanistan with Donald Trump’s new Afghan plan, despite the apparent glee in Kabul. The US has ex
Oct 15, 2017