Editorial

This whole debate about confronting and controlling Islamophobia, which got a new life after Turkish President Erdogan came down hard on his French counterpart after the latter’s rather Islamophobic remarks, now risks getting of control because it has assumed a life of its own on social media. And Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s letter to […]

The country’s economic managers should tighten their belts and prepare for yet another stiff test as the dreaded second wave of the coronavirus is all but confirmed and so-called smart lockdowns have already begun in a number of important cities. Karachi and Islamabad seem to be leading the race for the highest number of new […]

Now that a Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) investigation has found that the Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA) has long been involved in cartelisaion, it remains to be seen how the government responds. Cracking down on corruption is, after all, clearly its favourite part of governance and runaway sugar price inflation has long been one […]

The world ought to quickly understand the wisdom of Pakistan’s approach towards the Afghan peace process. Frist, when everybody wanted to physically end the Taliban by bombing and capturing them, Pakistan was telling them to talk to the insurgents otherwise the war would never end. And it was only after almost two decades of all […]

Just when it seemed, even if for the briefest moment, that the government was beginning to see the futility of a head-on confrontation with the opposition as the latter’s protests gather momentum and there might be a possibility of negotiations to diffuse the situation, the prime minister himself has ruled out such a possibility very […]

The Trump administration has clearly decided to do everything possible to contain China, right to the last moment before the election, in the hope of winning and picking up right where it left things. Now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is on his way to India once again next week to strengthen “critical relationships.” The […]

It is no longer just a possibility. It’s really happening. Both fresh cases of Covid-19 and the number of deaths caused by it have risen sharply over the last few days. Yet it seems all the government can do is helplessly plead with the people to follow all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), even though a […]

While the government would like to see the glass half-full and project only that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has acknowledged that blacklisting Pakistan is off the table, it is still very bad news that the country stays on the grey list for now. Pakistan made progress on 21 out of 27 action items […]

India’s rather belligerent media, especially when it comes to matters concerning Pakistan, clearly sank to a new low just the other day when it made claims of civil war breaking out in Karachi and martial law being imposed in parts of Sindh. They were no doubt trying to take advantage of the situation that developed […]

It’s good of heads of the country’s top banks to heap praise on the prime minister for taking care of their interests during the worst of the lockdown recently and also for all the things he’s doing to provide low-cost housing to poor people. The government did indeed go out of its way to keep […]