No accountability

Bad governance seems to be the order of the day. Due to sheer financial indiscipline, the government is borrowing Rs3 billion daily from the...

Challenges and opportunities

Time to take on the former and cash in the latter By the end of this year the entire foreign fighting forces in Afghanistan would...

“You Stink”

The existing structures will ultimately find a way to pick up their garbage, but they won't give willingly up their privilege It was a stroke...

Injustice with Saeed Ajmal

As usual Pakistan cricket is in the eye of a storm with the PCB being showered with advice from all quarters. What is the...

Election Commission members

Finally   It took a suo moto notice from the Supreme Court, but the names of the required four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan...

PIA Haj operation

One only hopes that unlike last four Haj operations by PIA, this year things will hopefully improve as per claims of Minister Khursheed Shah....

Linguistic recommendations

  Misplaced priorities   The notion that introduction of Arabic as a language course in schools will help curb terrorism is ridiculous and that this view has...

Barking up the wrong tree

TTP not interested in ‘dialogue and peace’ Statements from responsible government quarters had created a perception that backdoor contacts with the Pakistani Taliban had led...

Gas shortage in Sindh

A crisis created by federal government's own negligence   The PTI government is facing the first major crisis of its tenure. The  ongoing gas...

Capacity for farce

The next time Pakistan foreign secretary Salman Basheer wants to rubbish any wish-list of terrorists sent by India’s much-vaunted home minister P Chidambaram, he...

Relations with our Western neighbors

In stark contrast to one another Pakistan has thrown its support behind Iran at a time when both countries are facing deteriorating relations with the...

Wiping out polio

Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world where polio remains endemic. The lack of proper governance and accountability together with local...

Yellow cab scheme

Once again Shehbaz Sharif has announced the import of tax free cars for yellow cab scheme for the benefit of poor and unemployed people....

Thar coal mystery

Pakistan Today on 22 October, 2011 has published a Thar Coal Technical Overview by Mr Zahoor A Abbasi which shows the exploitation of Thar...

Dancing with the wolves

The monster needs to be eradicated Finally a government led by parties nominated by the Tehrik- e-Taliban Pakistan as ‘guarantors of peace talks’ is in...

Promising the moon

PTI’s 100 day programme In his first 100 day programme Imran Khan virtually promised everything to everyone:  an expeditious merger of FATA with KP,...

Condi’s revelation

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her new book “No Higher Honor” has revealed the details of a deal between former Prime...