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...
Trade deficit going up
The trade figures point to the real flaw
The foreign trade figures for December are not heartening, for they showed a 32...
Trump leaves office
But his creed is yet to be defeated
What happened in Washington on Wednesday was unprecedented in the history of the world’s...
All roads lead to Parliament
But the government must make it possible
National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser is busy holding meetings for the holding of a new...
PTI leadership and Biden’s victory
Unrealistically sanguine as ever
Days before the Indian elections PM Imran Khan thought there might be a better chance of peace talks...
Stipends for prayer leaders
The KP government gets ready to shower largesse
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to pay each mosque’s prayer leader an honorarium...
Work hard for Afghan peace
But it mustn’t be labour of love
Pakistan has bent over backward to help the USA, the Afghan government and the Afghan...
Judgment on NAB
A fiasco costing the country $28.7 million
The single-minded desire of the Musharraf regime to find some– any– evidence against the Sharifs...
Bahawalpur rally
Avoid use of religion for political gains
So far as the numbers were concerned, the PDM’s Bahawalpur rally was impressive. The audience...
Plight of the Hazaras
Unending agony
The kidnapping and shooting dead at close range of at least 11 coal miners in Balochistan’s Mach area after being...
License to Kill?
A young man’s killing raises worrying questions about the police
The killing of Osama Satti, 21, in the wee hours of Saturday,...
Going offline
Shutting down free WiFi cutting off nose to spite the face?
The Punjab government managed to put itself on the wrong side...
The NAB loses credibility
Cases being instituted at PM’s directions?
PM Imran Khan repeats, almost compulsively, that he would not give an NRO to opposition leaders...
Political appointments
Lahore CCPO removal was inevitable
Another one of the many pre-election promises made by the PTI that the party has abysmally failed...