CommentProblem with exports
Sheer incompetence Why is the prime minister so surprised about the sorry situation in exports? And why – if the press can be trusted – has he held the poor commerce<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/04/30/problem-with-exports/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Apr 30, 2017
CommentSecret talks with Jindal
Private business affairs or a personalised diplomacy? The description of Nawaz Sharif’s unannounced meeting with Indian businessman Sajjan Jindal as a huddle between old friends would satisfy few. Sharif is the Prime<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/04/29/secret-talks-with-jindal/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Apr 29, 2017
CommentLove-hate relationship
Kabul visit of Pak CGS a serious initiative for meaningful coordinationLt. General Bilal Akbar’s Afghanistan visit on Thursday signifies Pakistan’s urgency and indeed desperation to bring the
Apr 29, 2017
CommentImran’s bribery allegation
"He who has a sharp tongue cuts his own throat" Imran Khan loses control over his tongue whenever annoyed with an individual or an institution. He has called Khursheed Shah “double Shah
Apr 28, 2017
CommentNo end to bloodletting in Kurram
Can we stop this without cooperation with Afghanistan? While Pakistan mulls leading an Islamic Military Alliance with a still undefined agenda, terrorists continue to target the country u
Apr 27, 2017
CommentNot so strange developments
Post-judgment and pre-JIT That the verdict, one way or the other, would trigger a storm was inevitable. That it would push early election campaigns up a notch was also pretty apparent. Bu
Apr 27, 2017
CommentAfter the Balkh attack
Neighbouring countries need to come to Afghanistan’s rescue Within 8 days of the MOAB attack on ISIS caves and tunnels in the Nangarhar mountains, the Afghan Taliban launched a most da
Apr 24, 2017
CommentA free-for-all political mud fest
Clearing the way for PML-N Pakistan’s political parties have reverted to the Hobbesian state of nature where the hand of every man is against every man. The parties were already bracing
Apr 24, 2017
CommentWhile the parties fight tooth and claw
The IT becomes both crucial and unpredictable The opposition parties look at the probe by the JIT ordered by the SC as a God-sent opportunity to get an otherwise well-entrenched PML-N out of it
Apr 24, 2017
CommentCrowning career achievement
Man from Mardan does Pakistan cricket proud Younis Khan, after seventeen years’ toil in the volatile national cricket crucible, accomplished what only twelve batsmen have achieved in Test cricket history, passing the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/04/24/crowning-career-achievement/" title="Read more" >...</a>
Apr 24, 2017
CommentThe arc of the moral universe is sometimes too long
Somewhere between “tum kaafir, mein musalmaan”, too many have died That Mashal Khan’s death was unnecessary is moot. That it calls in to question the institution of the police force
Apr 23, 2017
CommentDay after Panama
Now the hangover This was a different kind of ‘kicking the can down the road’. It was certainly not the ‘historic moment’ the very honourable Supreme Court had everyone, especially th
Apr 23, 2017