Official curriculum for Friday sermonson September 21, 2017Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal wants to introduce an official curriculum for weekly Friday sermons at mosques to combat extremism and shape public opinion in favour of democracy. This is a welcome step but it is fraught with uncertainties. One is not certain if it is just minister’s lip service to sooth the public before Muharram […]
PML-N compromised its promise to end govt borrowings, minimising direct taxation to reduce burden on masseson March 19, 2017 According to the Ministry of Finance, Pakistan’s net public debt has crossed the Rs18.28 trillion mark, rising about 35 percent during the tenure of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). “The volume of net public debt as on Sept 30, 2016, was Rs18,277.6 billion,” the ministry’s response to PPP’s MNA in the National Assembly […]
Outlawed terror groups have links with mainstream political partieson August 16, 2016LAHORE: Q. Who is undermining anti-terror efforts? NACTA has to be made effective. Its governing Board, chaired by Prime Minister and staffed by top civilian and military authorities, was supposed to meet regularly, but hasn’t. Nobody expected Operation Zarb-e-Azb to be a short term proposition. The most striking aspect of the operation was the categorical […]