Newspaper - Analysis & Comment - June 12, 2025
Analysis: An IMF-mandated balancing act

Analysis: An IMF-mandated balancing act

Budget struggles to balance the IMF programme’s goal of fiscal consolidation with its desire to expand economy.
Updated 11 Jun, 2025 09:38am
Analysis: Half-empty or half-full?

Analysis: Half-empty or half-full?

Aurangzeb’s optimism wasn’t shared by many who have repeatedly seen enthusiastic reforms being sacrificed at the altar of political expediency.
Updated 10 Jun, 2025 12:32pm
Nuclear neighbours in high wire act

Nuclear neighbours in high wire act

Each side has played its hand to maximum effect, yet each also understands that pushing the envelope too far would risk mutual destruction.
Published 08 May, 2025 07:53am
Situationer: Kurram’s road to suffering

Situationer: Kurram’s road to suffering

Sadda and Central Kurram get by somehow, with supplies coming in through a rough mountainous road. Not Parachinar, though, which remains cut off.
Updated 13 Dec, 2024 10:57am
Who will rule the SC roost?

Who will rule the SC roost?

“The constitutional package is a bundle of confusion and no institution can function with so many contradictions,” a senior counsel says.
Updated 22 Oct, 2024 12:12pm
The elected seek greater role in picking judges

The elected seek greater role in picking judges

Proposed changes include taking away SC’s suo motu powers, capping CJP’s term at three years, empowering special committee to name top judge from 3 senior-most ones.
Updated 19 Oct, 2024 10:27am
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