Editorial

Preparing the report by due date should be the priority On Thursday Nawaz Sharif earned the unenviable distinction of being the first Pakistani premier ever to be interrogated by a JIT.

We truly are a bipolar side Pakistan’s win against England in the semi-final of the on-going Champions Trophy only goes to show that we are the most unpredictable cricketing side there is.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/16/pakistans-smashing-victory/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Cherry picking will neither improve internal security, nor remove neighbours’ suspicions This year two of the three drone strikes by the US army were aimed at Afghan Taliban commanders living in Pakistan.<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/15/national-security-requires-across-the-board-operations/" title="Read more" >...</a>

War of words turning into frequent LoC cross-border firing German statesman Otto von Bismarck, who dominated German and European diplomacy famously predicted that ‘some damn foolish thing in the Balkans’ would ignite<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/13/tinder-box-kashmir-border/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Challenged at home, can he perform a feat of high statesmanship abroad? The Panama case judgment and the ongoing inquiries by the JIT have damaged Nawaz Sharif’s position both at home

Need for genuine confidence building measures The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit provided Nawaz Sharif an opportunity to hold talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. The

Paris to London to Damascus to Karbala So, while the world’s biggest buyers (of military hardware) and arms sellers were hugging and kissing in Riyadh – at the anti-terror summit recently

More participatory than those by other major parties An otherwise reluctant PTI was forced at last by the Election Commission to hold intraparty elections. What had haunted the party was

If you can’t convince them…One good argument in favour of ‘confusing’ matters – if, that is, the N-league is really attempting to confuse matters – is that a disputed JIT, on top o

How long will Beijing wait for Islamabad to revise security for CPEC? Not everyone is a fan of CPEC. Our allies in the west are certainly wary. And while they make plenty of noise about i

Second Tory electoral disaster after David Cameron’s Brexit vote The results of the snap UK election called three years beforehand by PM Theresa May are out, and reveal a strategic blunder,

But does Sharif have the vision and capacity?  A historic task awaits Nawaz Sharif. What is urgently needed is to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Qatar to end the virtual blockade of th