Editorial

There can be no bigger indictment of America’s so-called war against terrorism than the fact that it proved to be the single biggest trigger for the largest, most extreme spread of terrorism across the world in its known history. And, of course, what could be more embarrassing for Washington that it ended with the Taliban […]

Once again it took barely half a day’s rain to completely paralyse almost all of Lahore city. And it’s not as if Friday’s shower was a heavy downpour. It did go on more or less all day, but the city administration had broken down while it was still a drizzle that lasted a couple of […]

Nobody will argue with Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, except perhaps some of his own cabinet colleagues, that food inflation is a “major challenge” yet he would find few people who would share his optimism that “every possible effort” is being made to tackle this problem and that the government would be able to control it. […]

It is no surprise at all that India turned out to be behind the cyber attack on the FBR (Federal Board of Revenue) website a few weeks ago. Pakistani authorities expected their investigation to divulge just such information; just like everybody here was convinced that India would go the extra mile, including spewing lies through […]

The Pakistani government has fulfilled yet another requirement of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) by providing a list of terrorist entities and individuals, including those proscribed by the UN Security Council, to estate agents. In this way the government has made it impossible for all banned terrorist organisations as well as their representatives to […]

The new Punjab police IG is certainly starting his stint by saying all the right things. The police force should not become the hand of the oppressor, instead it should become the hand of the oppressed, he said upon taking command. He also said that the best way of solving people’s problems at their doorsteps […]

The latest shakeup in Punjab means the province now has its seventh police chief and fifth chief secretary in just a little over three years, which is astonishing because it’s left the public puzzled and the senior bureaucracy paralysed. It is because of this game of musical chairs that senior officers in the province have, […]

After raising hopes all around of a well-rounded, well-represented cabinet in Afghanistan, the Taliban’s first few announcements regarding key government positions, like prime minister, foreign minister, interior minister, etc, have been something of a letdown so far. The Taliban’s own old guard, comprising mostly of its oldest, fiercest members, has been accommodated before anybody else […]

The finance minister hasn’t panicked just yet, at least not for public consumption, but he’s clearly been worried enough about the expanding trade deficit to give the commerce ministry a good dressing down. The year-on-year trade deficit for August 2021 grew by 122 percent to reach $6.5 billion, the highest one-month figure on record. That’s […]

How embarrassing for India as a nation that its mainstream media has been caught with its pants down once again; trying to spread fake news and rumours about Pakistan’s alleged involvement in the Afghan war as the Taliban cleared the last opposition stronghold of Panjsher in the north, only to be embarrassed by the international […]