The writer is a member of staff.
LAHOREIt seems that everyone was focusing on the IMF deal, and how bad for the economy it would be. The stock market reacted poorly to the deal, collapsing. That shows that the average Pakistani stock-marke
At Penpoint The PTI must avoid the temptation to rely too much on local bodies That the PTI would dissolve the local councils in Punjab and hold fresh elections was perhaps
LAHORE--PTI is not very interested. Nawaz isn’t involved, so who cares?I’m surprised no one has drawn the links between the attacks on Data Sahib and those in Colombo. No one has accused anyone of c
At Penpoint The PML-N still has no replacement The PML-N is facing a downward trajectory, but there is still no sign that an alternative rightist force is being developed,
LAHOREIn the era of #MeToo, Joe Biden, Obama’s Veep, is going to run for the Presidency. He’s 77, which makes him already four years older than Trump. He entered politics back in 1972, as a Senator for
ColumnsAt Penpoint How does Imran measure up to a standard he himself set The need for Prime Minister Imran Khan to repeat the Riasat-e-Madina trope, as he did in his PTI foundati
AT PENPOINT With top picks coming from outside parliamentIt was perhaps inevitable that Prime Minister Imran Khan’s first Cabinet reshuffle should have been transformed into a deb
LAHORELAHORE: The one-and-a-half-year-old child who was killed in Karachi during police firing at dacoits led to the arrest of the five policemen involved, though their ‘brothers of the belt’ are trying
LAHOREThere have been ructions all over the Middle East, and nowhere has Imran Khan been involved. The people of Sudan have protested hard enough for the military finally to tell President Omar Al-Bashir to
ColumnsAt Penpoint The raid on Hamza Shehbaz was politically necessary It would be cold comfort to Punjab Assembly Opposition Leader Hamza Shehbaz to learn that the raid by NAB to
LAHORELAHORE: Who said there was no one to read the Hindu classics in Pakistan? It almost seems as if the Mahabharata was being re-enacted in Chiniot, not the great war between the Kauravas and the Pandava
Consultations are compulsory under the constitutionAT PENPOINTPrime Minister Imran Khan should realise that by having opted to work within the present system, he committed himself to obey
