USA’s Venezuelan adventure
The US kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and removal to the USA for trial on drug-related offences can only be described as bizarre....
Wimter in Gaza
The Israel-Hamas ceasefire is supposed to go to the netstage, but at the moment, Gaza’s inhabitants are faced with a problem, that of Israel...
Inflation wobbles
The December reading of the Consumer Price Index was 5.6 percent higher year-on-year, while there had been a month-on-month decrease from November of 0.5...
+DWSFBR misses
The Federal Board of Revenue’s missing the tax target by Rs 330 billion for the first six months of the current fiscal year is...
Textile woes
Textiles are still the backbone of Pakistan’s exports, still the largest of its industries, that much is undeniable, but that it is in crisis,...
Federal Civility Erodes
The letter sent by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi to Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz marks more than a dispute over protocol. It...
Learning from the PIA experience
The overall experience of the government with privatization has been varied. From the time that privatization started off as an attempt to retire the...
UAE President
UAE President Muhammad bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan paid his first visit to Pakistan, a destination to which his late father and predecessor, Shaikh...
Unsafe in India
Christmas saw the USA’s Africa Command launch what US President Donald Trump called ‘powerful and deadly’ strikes against the Islamic State in Nigeria's Sokoto...
To talk or not to talk?
The recent meeting of the main opposition alliance, the Tehrik Tahaffuz Ain Pakistan failed to give what its chairman, Mahmud Khan Achakzai, had recommended,...
Power problems
NEPRA has proposed switching the present net metering offered to solar power producers who have retained their grid connections to gross metering, and that...
At agriculture’s crossroads
Pakistan’s agriculture feeds a nation, anchors rural livelihoods and earns scarce foreign exchange. It also stands on increasingly fragile ground. Climate shocks, water scarcity,...
The convictions pile up
The conviction of PTI founder Imran and his wife Bushra Bibi in the second Toshakhana case, relating to the Bulgari necklace and watch sold...
Winter water
After India suspended the Indus Waters Treaty in May, following its blaming Pakistan without bothering to produce any evidence, it was pointed out that...
LSM collapse
Large-scale manufacturing is crucial to Pakistan’s efforts to becoming a self-reliant economy. Not only is it supposed to generate, especially through textile made-ups, the...