Editorial

Perhaps the so-called foreign funding case, which is all the rage right now, could have been titled better. The fine print reveals that it is more a case of prohibited funding under Article-6(3) of the Political Parties Order (PPO) 2002, the maximum punishment for which is confiscation of the prohibited proceeds and nothing more. Also, […]

The gas crisis has been handled so badly that news reports suggest that unhappiness with the prime minister’ special assistant on energy, Nadeem Babar, has reached the federal cabinet itself. At the heart of the problem is the government’s own incompetence since for some reason it did not purchase Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) during the […]

Remittances have now clocked in above the $2 billion mark for seven months in a row, which is very good news for the struggling country as well as the struggling government. This impressive trend owes to a whole host of factors, some of which are more prominent than others. One, a lot of Pakistanis have […]

With the timeline for the acquisition and rollout of the vaccine in Pakistan still uncertain, and news reports speaking of the second wave of the coronavirus soon giving way to a third wave, the decision about reopening schools hangs in the balance; and understandably so. It’s not just that the virus is spreading much faster, […]

That the Irish government had to get the Malaysian government to impound an aircraft of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) because the national flag carrier just forgot to pay the lease for the plane is nothing short of a national embarrassment. The government’s explanation, that the payment was somehow missed because of the pandemic has, […]

Reports about firebrand Indian anchor Arnab Goswani being in possession of secret knowledge about the Modi government’s plans about the Balakot strike ahead of time has opened a can of worms, but it has also confirmed what was already pretty much known in Pakistan. For India has long been in the habit of putting the […]

It is welcome news that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is prioritising reduction in the cost of doing business for the budget of fiscal year 2021-22. And there is no doubt that getting rid of excessive taxation and slashing compliance costs are essential steps in that direction. Yet it remains to be seen if […]

The nature of US politics has changed so much since Donald Trump became president of that country four years ago that much of the world is actually breathing a sigh of relief that his administration has slapped further sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran even in its last few days in office. That is […]

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi is right that the recent debate about the Kashmir conflict in the United Kingdom’s (UK) House of Commons proves that it is not, according to New Delhi’s position, India’s internal issue. It is no doubt a great success of Islamabad’s diplomatic offensive under the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) administration […]

Persistent food inflation, despite the formation of a high-level committee to check prices of essential items in the country, has left the government with egg on its face once again because this is yet another artificial price surge that has nothing to do with the fundamentals of the economy. Simply put, this is an example […]