The recent statements by European Union Special Envoy Gilles Bertrand and United Kingdom Special Envoy Richard Lindsay mark a significant shift in the international discourse surrounding terrorism emanating from Afghanistan. Their unequivocal acknowledgement of Pakistan’s legitimate right to self-defence against cross-border terrorist threats not only validates Islamabad’s longstanding concerns but also exposes the Taliban regime’s […]
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Glaring Failure
The Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Programme, introduced in September 2023, is a necessary state initiative meant to ensure the phased and orderly return of all undocumented foreign residents. Beginning with voluntary departures and moving, when required, to enforced repatriation, the programme is not directed at any particular nationality. Rather, it is a sovereign responsibility essential for […]
Farrukh sees Sindh’s ‘failure’ to use Rs1800bn NFC fund for public welfare
Speaking with journalists at the Ali Zaib Foundation Centre of the General Hospital in Ghulam Muhammad Abad, he said that children were facing malnutrition in interior Sindh. “There is no vaccine in hospitals for dog-bite victims, and even the irrigation water being supplied to Sindh is stolen,” he said. At Sukkur, Sindh got 16,000 cusecs […]
Whitening schemes: failure of tax system
The Government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has finally notified its first asset/income/expenditure whitening scheme-Assets Declaration Ordinance, 2019.Promulgated as Presidential Ordinance on May 14, 2019, the scheme gives generous incentives to those who have not been paying their taxes honestly, concealing and/or understating assets/incomes/sales/expenses and cheating the State. This is, no doubt, an open admission of […]
Is the United Nations a failure?
Remember 2015? A small boat carrying Syrian refugees across the Mediterranean Sea was hit by high waves. Abdullah Kurdi, a father, found himself fighting with ruthless waves to save his son. The child was found lying with his face down in the sand. Kurdi was trying to reach Europe. The tragedy shocked the entire world. […]
PTI economic policies, a failure?
Pakistan is passing through toughest economic conditions of its history. Yet these conditions are not irreparable or irreversible. There is a light of hope on the other side of this darkest long tunnel. What we need is to be focused and to let the storm of repayments due this year be settled. These repayments are […]