Budget 2021-22: the real test has just begun on July 4, 2021Governments usually breathe a sigh of relief once the annual budget is passed. Yet even though this year’s finance bill was accepted without much opposition from opposition benches when it finally came time to vote, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin wouldn’t be as relieved as usual just yet. The reason, of course, is that the real […]
How and why Punjab governor bats for Pakistan on June 24, 2021Governor Punjab Chaudhary Sarwar wasn’t too pleased about an opinion piece published in this newspaper which, it turns out, counted on one too many ‘anonymous sources’ in the Pakistani embassy and elsewhere in the United States (US) to build against his motives for going there recently and the manner in which he carried himself while […]