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That the Chinese are “not happy with the current progress of CPEC projects” ought to ring serious alarm bells in Islamabad not just because the Corridor is the landmark project that will provide the kind of infrastructure that will give the Pakistani economy a long-term facelift, but also because China is the single biggest foreign […]

Whatever the pros and cons of SBP’s intervention in the money market to put a floor under the rupee, the more important debate is that the central bank’s policies should be in keeping with the interests of the people and the state. And Governor Dr Reza Baqir has been conspicuous by his absence all the […]

Senior ministers don’t even try to hide their contempt for the press anymore. Even as the government-media standoff on the matter of the Pakistan Media Development Authority (PMDA) was making headlines of its own, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar thought it was a good idea to lock the press out during the president’s annual address […]

The PIA management hasn’t yet presented any sort of plan to turn its fortunes around, despite promising to do just that for years, but it has forced the government to keep up the tradition of bailing it out every year. The blame rests squarely with the management, that made a number of very tall claims […]

Government-opposition disagreement about the use of electronic voting machines (EVM) in the next election has drawn the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) into the fray for no reason whatsoever and developed into a firestorm that threatens to engulf parliament itself. Since elections are almost always controversial in this country, for one reason or another, and […]

The way the rupee started falling against the dollar in the international market not long after it was set free, it was only a matter of time when it broke through all previous support levels and entered completely unchartered territory. And that moment came on Tuesday, when one dollar was fetching 168.94 rupees, the highest […]

Strangely, the government has found this time, of all times, an opportune one for proposing a 10 percent increase in salaries of members of parliament and four constitutional position holders even though the prime minister had himself earlier taken the position of not giving additional monetary benefits to what is after all an already pretty […]

Strange as it is, Washington seems to be on the verge of committing a foreign policy blunder that, if instituted, will haunt this region for a long time to come. In what seems like a fit of frustration following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and evaporation of its influence in the region, it […]

The flurry of high-profile visits to Pakistan following the fall of Kabul was expected, because it is the most natural vantage point to keep an eye on what’s happening in Afghanistan. But the regional spymasters’ summit, hosted in Islamabad by DG ISI General Faiz Hameed, was the first of its kind. And it goes to […]

If life wasn’t already miserable enough for the working-class common-man of this country, especially because of food inflation, rising electricity tariffs could well prove to be the last nail in the coffin of many a Pakistani. It turns out that electricity tariffs have risen by no less than 30 percent in the three years of […]