CommentDesperate quest for Afghan peace
Optimistic reports on COAS’ Kabul talks The maiden one day visit of the COAS to Kabul on Sunday at Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s invitation started well enough with a one-on-one meeting which was termed<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/10/02/desperate-quest-for-afghan-peace/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Oct 2, 2017
CommentInterior Minister versus the Rangers
Can the Prime Minister thread the needle? On Monday Nawaz Sharif appeared before an accountability court for a second time to face charges in three graft cases prepared by NAB against hi
Oct 2, 2017
CommentForeign minister and foreign office
Same page? Typical of the foreign office to play down the Islamic State (IS) threat in Pakistan the same day police prevented a possible disaster in Karachi by killing five IS militants
Oct 1, 2017
CommentSharifs, PML-N and democracy
The future The shift from “Why did they disqualify me?” to “I know why they disqualified me” didn’t just betray a subtle, though significant, shift in Nawaz’s posture, it al
Oct 1, 2017
CommentBrittle rupee again
It will fall Barely a year since IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF) was wrapped up, the rupee is simply unable to maintain its artificially bloated position in the face of steadily declinin
Oct 1, 2017
CommentSafe Haven of another kind
Fear of rupee devaluation drives investors into dollar territory Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, despite his indictment, may be stubbornly resisting resignation, but his policies are already beginnin
Sep 30, 2017
CommentTalks with Afghanistan
What is required is flexibility and diplomatic finesse The way to Pak-Afghan reconciliation is heavily mined. There are historical roadblocks like the Durand Line and the presence of Afghan refugees in Pakistan.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/09/30/talks-with-afghanistan/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 30, 2017
CommentReconstructing Afghanistan
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Sep 29, 2017
CommentTrump is no push over
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Sep 29, 2017
CommentThe opposition leader slot
Politics and bedfellows PTI cajoling MQM, and the latter gleefully hosting the former in Karachi, would have been an outright impossibility not too long ago. But eating one’s words for pers
Sep 28, 2017
CommentNawaz’s defiance
Divorced from reality? There was nothing new, really, in Nawaz Sharif’s much anticipated press conference. And despite making more or less the same speech since the GT Road long drive
Sep 27, 2017
CommentVerbal wars and a howler
Indo-Pak hostility sizzles at UN forum International delegates at global and regional forums must be fed up of the perpetual Indo-Pak animosity which inevitably spills over in these conferences, drawing media and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/09/27/verbal-wars-and-a-howler/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Sep 27, 2017