Editorial

Dripping with emotion, the embrace between Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his niece Maryam Nawaz Sharif marked the beginning of a new era for the ruling family. There could not be a greater ad rem sign of the happy days shining through the clouds of doom and gloom for the House of Sharifs than Thursday’s […]

It is not politics as usual for Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari who appears to have foregone all personal designs in his razor-sharp focus on the assignment. The top diplomat has been doing the rounds in New York and Washington DC, trying to draw international attention to the unprecedented scope of the climatic-induced disaster that […]

As if the previous string of audio clippings had not caused enough frenzy, yet another discreetly recorded conversation between a prime minister and his confidante is out of the bag. Interestingly enough, the tables have turned this time and the target has landed on the PTI’s back. Said to be an exchange between former premier […]

“Transgender persons are also humans,” pronounced Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar as he gave credence to his government’s official solidarity with the controversial Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2018. In a rare, albeit pleasant, surprise, Islamabad appears determined to defend the law despite a brewing opposition, both inside the legislature and out on the […]

Sitting at the crossroads of society, culture and pure economics, institutions of higher learning have been actively planting ideological flags for as long as one may remember. So when former prime minister Imran Khan’s speech at a prestigious seat of learning, Government College University, on Monday managed to stir a frenzy, it had nothing to […]

Starting from New Delhi, the flames of bigotry are making merry on their way across the globe. As many as 48 have been arrested in recent days for participating in Hindu-Muslim clashes in the British city of Leicester and the number is expected to rise even higher. In the latest instalment of the anti-Muslim spree, […]

Politics in Pakistan was never civil, to begin with, but the new plunges of provocative rhetoric, the rife culture of hatred and vile polarisation still manage to take the nation by storm. However, looking at the knee-jerk defence of those shooting poisonous daggers by people from all walks of life, we, too, have become part […]

The surprising visit to Adiala Jail by judges from Islamabad and the resultant transfer of as many as 10 head warders and 17 warders have not pointed to a ground-shattering revelation. Because while the action on the part of authorities had remained perpetually absent, the miseries of those left to rot in the gallows once […]

Tis the season to be recorded only to be leaked later! In what can only be termed a bonanza of audio leaks all tracing back to the PM house, none other than the sitting prime minister of a sovereign country has managed to stir hornets’ nest left, right and centre. On Saturday, he was heard […]

While finance minister Miftah Ismail must have accepted the golden envelope in full knowledge of the challenges ahead, even his long and thoroughgoing experience failed to prepare him for the wrath of the detractors from within his own party. The storm had been looming ominously closer ever since the de factor Lioness Maryam Nawaz had […]