How long will PDM last?
Managing the differences is no cakewalk
The PDM comprises different parties with each one having a separate programme. They also have a...
PTV chief
Is the government doing what its predecessors did?
The suspension of Mr Naeem Bukhari as Chairman of PTV was done by the...
The façade of transparency
And of zero tolerance for corruption
Prime Minister Imran Khan is never tired of emphasizing the need for transparency. It is therefore...
Trilateral Summit
Deepening ties with Turkey and Azerbaijan has pluses, but also an underside
Pakistan has hosted a trilateral summit with Turkey and Azerbaijan,...
Doha talks
Accommodation required to fulfil mutual expectations
The Afghan government wants an end to the ongoing bloodshed in the country. The Afghan Taliban...
Cabinet irresponsibility
PM doesn’t seem in charge of his Cabinet
Prime Minister Imran Khan told his ministers to do two things: to improve their...
The struggle for civilian supremacy
Not a limited over match
The clarification sought by PDM chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman from the GHQ would have been unnecessary if...
Trigger-happy police
Procedural controls required to prevent extrajudicial killings
A judicial inquiry report on the senseless murder of 22-year-old Osama Satti on a main...
As PTI nears completing its mid-term
Negative factors pile up
The most prominent challenges Pakistan faces today are the country’s economic recovery, containment of Covid-19, improving internal security,...
Unsatisfactory explanations
Government should take responsibility for national blackout
Two days have passed since the country witnessed a sudden national power grid breakdown, plunging...
Blackout lessons
Unless lessons are learned, it could happen again
The whole country went through a nine-hour blackout in the wee hours of Sunday,...
PDM disarray
The PML(N) joins the PPP in taking part in the by-polls
All the glassy-eyed bonhomie between the PML(N) and the PPP, the...
Preparing to deal with new US administration
Need to safeguard a complicated but vital relationship
The Foreign Office is about to initiate an in-house debate over Pak-US relations under...
Embarrassment in New Zealand
Pakistan cricket team’s stunning collapse
After a chaotic off-the-field start to its tour of New Zealand owing to covid-19 violations and positive...
The absence of a healing touch
PM Khan and Hazara killings
On Friday mourners sat around 10 dead bodies of Hazara miners for the sixth day. Protests against...