AGP’s problematic compliance report
More needs to be done to avoid the axe
Pakistan is in a particularly tough spot as the date for the FATF’s (Financial Action...
Azadi March
Repressive measures are not justified by wrongheadedness
If the Azadi March by the JUI(F) is as much of a non-event as its opponents, which...
Polio’s comeback
Efforts to eliminate the disease suffer a setback
The detection of three more cases of polio in Sindh (Karachi), Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has brought...
The hard task ahead
Bringing the USA and the Afghan Taliban together
Pakistan is making efforts to break the stalemate in Afghanistan caused by the suspension of talks...
Fed up tycoons
Will their complaints result in action?
A few days ago, tycoons from across the country met with COAS Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to air...
A leap of faith
The JUI-F is really desperate
As long as Parliament is functional and the courts are delivering judgments, there is little sense in taking recourse...
Press freedom
The stakeholders unite against tribunals
A joint meeting of the APNS, the CPNE, the PBA and all three factions of the PFUJ have opposed...
Adjustment and the business squeeze
Government’s vindictiveness adds complications
The way the IMF’s representatives have been allowed to implement the adjustment, has not only made the common man cry...
Royal visit
Security must not be stinted
Though Pakistan has not just been independent of the UK for 72 years, and has even been a republic...
Strengthening ties with Beijing
But simultaneously maintaining relations with the West
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s third China visit in a year is important for a number of reasons....
Getting moving again
Khalilzad may get talks started again
The visit to Islamabad by US Special Envoy on Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad was cause for optimism. It showed...
Reshuffling the incompetent is no solution
A fish rots from the head down
With the PTI’s style of governance, complaints against ministers are bound to rise from the party MNAs....
JUI-F’s putsch
Major opposition parties still not convinced
JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman is showing no signs of backing down from his “million march” to Islamabad...
Kashmir progress report
Why isn’t NA being taken on board?
PM Imran Khan’s efforts to pressurize India have so far failed to effect any change in Modi government’s stance...
Unfulfilled promises
Why make them in the first place?
PM Imran Khan, during his first year, has had to take the business community into confidence over...
Chaman blast
Terror is not yet over
The Improvised Explosive Device which killed three in Chaman, including JUI(F) leader Maulana Muhammad Hanif, showed that the law...
Police reforms
Resistance will keep the thana culture supreme
Senior policeman who are resisting the new accountability mechanism of a regulatory body should realise that a...
