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The government has not solved the problems the peopleAT PENPOINTThe problems with the economy are not showing signs of going away, despite the optimistic pronouncements of government offic

Nawaz and Morsi have much in common while being very differentAT PENPOINTThe death of Mohamed Morsi in dramatic fashion, after having a heart attack in open court, moved Maryam Nawaz Shari

LAHORE

I don’t think anyone congratulated the Pakistan team on losing to India. It was doubly painful because it meant that Pakistan was most likely out of the World Cup, and because it meant that Sarfraz

At Penpoint How recent and past events shaped the debate around role of judges The Supreme Judicial Council has held a preliminary hearing in the references against Justice

LAHORE

It seems we’re never going to get the good old budget speech from the finance minister. True, we have the speech in the National Assembly, but for two years in succession we’ve had a minister of s

LAHORE

It seems we’re never going to get the good old budget speech from the finance minister. True, we have the speech in the National Assembly, but for two years in succession, we’ve had a minister of

At Penpoint Heading towards a new type of one-party state The crises that seem to be seizing this government all seem to have corruption at their root. There seems to be an

LAHORE

A belated Happy Eid to everyone. Must be really belated, for even the last stragglers have come in, ready to attend office this morning, after so many days away, probably back in The Village, to which

LAHORE

The good news is that we know it will be Eid on Wednesday. For that knowledge, we do not have to depend on Mufti Muneebur Rehman, but because we have an app from Mufti Fawad Chaudhry. What happens if

At Penpoint Modi may have copied Indira Gandhi, of all people When the dust settled from the Indian election, it has resulted in an even greater triumph for Prime Minister

LAHORE

Let me say at the outset that I have the deepest respect for National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal. The denial by NAB of the video purporting to show him in a bad light

At Penpoint Greece provides an example of Pakistan’s future  Inexorably, Pakistan comes closer and closer to its tryst with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF