Editorial

After getting a huge boost from the charged rally of diaspora at the Capital One Arena in Washington on Sunday, Prime Minister Imran Khan went to the White House in an upbeat mood for an official meeting with US President Donald Trump. Pakistan got out of the meeting what it was expecting: a thaw in relations between the two strategic partners. The US president minced no words in announcing the … [Read more...] about Imran-Trump meeting

Fatema Sohail has highlighted the chronic disease called domestic violence running in most of the households in our part of the land. The pictures of Fatema Sohial, with bruises on her face, have gone viral with hashtag #MohisnAbbasHaider. Though the world marks October as a domestic violence awareness month, we need to mark every day as a 'domestic violence awareness day', given the overwhelming … [Read more...] about Domestic violence survivors

Ever since the announcement of Prime Minister Imran Khan's official working visit to the United States a couple of weeks ago, there were numerous speculations regarding his accommodation, travel plans and prospects of interactions with Washington DC's movers and shakers, including key members of the Pakistani-American community. While some of these speculations fizzled out when he chose to adopt … [Read more...] about PM Khan’s historic rally in Washington DC

Just one day after peaceful elections in the once-war-ravaged defunct Federally Tribal Administered Areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, blood-thirsty terrorists struck a government-run hospital in Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday and killed six people besides leaving 28 others wounded. Among the martyred, two are policemen and four civilians. The suicide bomber, stated to be a woman, aged 28, worked as … [Read more...] about Another suicide bombing

As treachery Karachi roads present chaotic scenes because of the unbearable burden of traffic mess most of the times on a working day, it is unfortunate that a comprehensive public transport system named Blue Line project, one of the three Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) schemes, has been shelved by the Sindh government. Planned and announced four years ago with much funfair by the government, perhaps … [Read more...] about The road of blues

We are living in a world of amnesties. After a series of amnesties for those who have amassed black money in 2018 and 2019, the government has announced one such scheme for the government employees who secured passports illegally. The period of forgiveness will end on July 23. According to rough estimates, 84,000 public officials have got issued passports as a common citizen only to enjoy foreign … [Read more...] about Passport to illegal flights

From the quick disposal of cases, now Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa has made the quality of justice his priority. Putting aside the textbook rules of deciding the cases on the basis of evidence, the chief justice counted false testimony one of the major misstep in the criminal justice system. Ruling no leniency to false eyewitnesses, the chief justice has introduced a regime of strict action … [Read more...] about Chief justice’s war on falsehood

This is what International Monetary Fund (IMF) Resident Representative to Pakistan Teresa Daban Sanchez has delivered to Pakistan along a set of damning conditions attached to the bailout package. Of all conditions, the condition of establishing a stable political environment in the country is the most pressing, and a doable thing by all the stakeholders. At a symposium in Islamabad, she narrated … [Read more...] about No political stability without economic stability

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) continues with its newfound mission of arresting politicians belonging to the previous regimes. The latest performance of the NAB officials is the arrest of former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Senior Vice President Shahid Khaqan Abbasi. By the time he was arrested, everyone was clueless about the ground for his arrest, however, according … [Read more...] about More arrests, no results

Today is a life-changing day for 2.8 million people of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas, who, for the first time, will use their right to franchise for 16 seats in elections for the provincial assembly. For decades, they remained voiceless, while their representatives, mostly influential clerics or tribal lords, elected for National Assembly and Senate seats, hardly raised their … [Read more...] about A new era in tribal areas