Editorial

Everybody has known about the rot that has set into not just PIA but all PSEs (Public Sector Enterprises) yet despite all the talk of reforms, overhaul and even privatisation for years if not decades on end, it finally took a monumental national disaster for the government to really wake up to the real problem. […]

International financial markets breathed a sigh of relief this week, of sorts, even though the last couple of days saw some reversal of sentiment because of the US president’s less than diplomatic utterances about the People’s Republic of China. Therefore, even though safe haven investment vehicles in the currency markets, such as the Japanese yen […]

News of a PIA A320 passenger plane crashing just before landing in Karachi has sent the whole country into shock, and the prime minister has already ordered an official inquiry. The tragedy is made all the worse because the plane crashed just minutes before landing at the Karachi airport, and that too in a residential […]

Now the time has come for the toll the coronavirus is taking on the economy to start showing in the numbers. The authorities were braced for bad news, of course, but still the current account deficit spiking 64-fold in April to $572 million, compared to $9 million in the previous month, must have caused some […]

Prime Minister Imran Khan hit the nail on the head, while addressing the “Covid Action Platform” hosted by the World Economic Forum through video link on Wednesday, when he said that poor countries might not be able to survive the pandemic if international creditors and rich nations did not write off their debt immediately. It’s […]

That doctors continue to test positive for the coronavirus is proof enough, if any were still needed, that those at the front lines of this war are not being provided with necessary protective equipment. It turns out that more than a dozen doctors at Lahore General Hospital have tested positive in the latest such incident. […]

Pakistan has now surpassed the grim milestone of one thousand deaths from the coronavirus. Government officials are right in claiming that the overall number of deaths here, compared to other countries, has been rather low. But then they should also see other data sets that are coming out, which indicate that Pakistan’s daily count of […]

Since the entire world’s focus has turned to survival it is easy to forget the plight of communities living in abuse and occupation. They needed more help and aid than the world could provide even in what seem now like the good times. Now, not only has much of the world completely forgotten about them […]

It is simply unacceptable that even now, when the first phase of the fight against the pandemic is over and the second phase of gradually opening up is effectively underway in much of the world, we are still struggling with an overarching narrative about how to deal with the whole thing. First the centre and […]

A lot of debate has been triggered, not all of it expected, because of a certain Trukish historical drama airing on our screens, not the least because the PM himself endorsed it and directed the national TV channel to arrange an Urdu dubbing as people have a little extra time on their hands because of […]