Editorial

Was it really just two years ago that we were kicking up our heels; beyond overjoyed at finally seeing the resilient Khadija Siddiqi get her due share of justice? Khadija was ambushed not in a dark alley in the dead of night but one of Pakistan’s most bustling streets in broad daylight. Though her life […]

With the Delta variant turning out to be a cause of grave concern in Sindh and Gilgit-Baltistan, their provincial governments have taken drastic steps for lockdown measures that may be difficult to absorb for a great number of businesses but remain vital for public safety. While the national positivity average hovers around 6%, the 25% […]

Pakistani politicians have a knack for going viral for all the wrong reasons. Remember when former president, General Pervez Musharraf, had shocked the world with his crass recipe for getting foreign citizenship? Just “get yourself raped!” Not disgusting enough! Asif Zardari’s blunt flirtatious remarks to American Republican leader, Sarah Palin, was just as par for […]

Surely it’s something of a shame that G20 energy and environment ministers were unable to agree on climate change targets, or even the wording of a key climate change commitment in their communique at a meeting in Naples, Italy just the other day, even as fires, floods, heatwaves and droughts rampaged all the way from […]

Tributes, especially when they are showered upon one after his or her death, tend to appear clichéd. But with the passing of veteran editor Arif Nizami, who wore far too many hats in this industry to be easily contained in even the most liberal obituary, it can very safely be said that a great era […]

A resurgent Taliban seem increasingly determined to drench America’s closing act in Kabul in analogous bloody hues. Any sensible state would have rolled up its sleeves and got down to cleaning its house. After all, the Taliban’s military success is a pretty simple recipe for its own downfall. But instead, the Afghan government is busy […]

The Pakistani nation goes into this Eid riding on a wave of high inflation. The common man is struggling with the prices of just about everything that is central to his life; like stable food, sugar, wheat flour, petrol, even sacrificial animals on this holy day. This year prices are much higher and cannot just […]

News that the Indian government used an Israeli software to spy on Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan by hacking his phone is disturbing and paints New Delhi in a bad light, but it’s also an established and accepted fact that all countries have intelligence agencies that are expected to do whatever they need to do […]

Despite the success of the Roshan Digital Account, record inflow of remittances throughout the last fiscal, as well as a very healthy bulge in foreign portfolio investment (FPI) that came to our capital markets, and the fact that forex reserves are at a five-year high, the Pakistani rupee continues to lose ground against the dollar; […]

Now that the cat is out of the bag, and the Indians have admitted that they played a role in keeping Pakistan on FATF’s grey list, the Pakistani foreign office (FO) is right and stands vindicated to the extent that it had said so all along. In fact, its position was very clear that any […]