Editorial
THOUGH India’s invitation to Pakistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation events in Goa later this ...
Published 27 Jan, 2023 06:54am
There are concerns whether the ECP will be sufficiently able to protect the integrity of elections if they are held under partisan governments.
Updated 27 Jan, 2023 08:40am
ONE way the state abdicates responsibility in Pakistan is by farming out its functions to the private sector. In ...
Published 27 Jan, 2023 06:54am
IF the claim of former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, that Pakistan and India came close to a nuclear exchange...
Published 26 Jan, 2023 08:11am
THE ‘management’ of the exchange rate by the State Bank, allegedly at the behest of the government, to ward off...
Published 26 Jan, 2023 08:11am
Does the state really need to fan public discontent in a period as fraught with uncertainty as this?
Updated 26 Jan, 2023 08:43am
THE State Bank’s decision to hike its key policy rate to a 25-year high of 17pc to anchor inflation expectations ...
Published 25 Jan, 2023 07:03am
The energy transmission infrastructure needs to be treated with more seriousness and its weaknesses removed.
Updated 25 Jan, 2023 09:11am
EVEN by the abysmal standards of our broken legal system, the acquittal of former SSP Rao Anwar and his 17...
Published 25 Jan, 2023 07:03am
Mohsin Naqvi will have to work extra hard to prove himself worthy of the responsibility he has been entrusted with.
Updated 24 Jan, 2023 08:44am
NEW DELHI’S extreme reaction to a BBC documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid bare the BJP...
Published 24 Jan, 2023 07:40am
IT is difficult to accept the free speech argument being used to ‘defend’ frequent acts of desecration by...
Published 24 Jan, 2023 07:39am
'Friendly countries' have made it public that are no longer interested in providing Islamabad with anymore easy money.
Updated 23 Jan, 2023 08:34am
THE Saudi position not to recognise Israel until there is a two-state solution to the Palestine question is a ...
Published 23 Jan, 2023 07:07am
PAKISTAN has for the past several decades been battling sectarianism. While targeted killings and sectarian acts of...
Published 23 Jan, 2023 07:07am
Energy accounts for the largest portion of Pakistan’s imports, and cheaper oil from Russia will help somewhat lower the burgeoning trade deficit.
Updated 22 Jan, 2023 09:03am
TRANSPHOBIA takes many forms, all of them cruel and degrading. Sometimes it emanates from unexpected quarters. On...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 07:40am
A DAY after the FIFA-AFC delegation left the country after holding meetings with officials of the Pakistan Football...
Published 22 Jan, 2023 07:39am
EXILE is nothing new for Pakistan’s political class. Leaders have often slipped away to safer foreign climes...
Published 21 Jan, 2023 06:35am
Further delay in repairing the relationship with the IMF will only exacerbate the political price PML-N will have to pay.
Updated 21 Jan, 2023 08:54am