The absence of a healing touch

PM Khan and Hazara killings On Friday mourners sat around 10 dead bodies of Hazara miners for the sixth day. Protests against...

Trade deficit going up

The trade figures point to the real flaw The foreign trade figures for December are not heartening, for they showed a 32...

Trump leaves office

But his creed is yet to be defeated What happened in Washington on Wednesday was unprecedented in the history of the world’s...

All roads lead to Parliament

But the government must make it possible National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser is busy holding meetings for the holding of a new...

PTI leadership and Biden’s victory

Unrealistically sanguine as ever Days before the Indian elections PM Imran Khan thought there might be a better chance of peace talks...

Stipends for prayer leaders

The KP government gets ready to shower largesse The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to pay each mosque’s prayer leader an honorarium...

Work hard for Afghan peace

But it mustn’t be labour of love Pakistan has bent over backward to help the USA, the Afghan government and the Afghan...

Judgment on NAB

A fiasco costing the country $28.7 million The single-minded desire of the Musharraf regime to find some– any– evidence against the Sharifs...

Bahawalpur rally

Avoid use of religion for political gains So far as the numbers were concerned, the PDM’s Bahawalpur rally was impressive. The audience...

Plight of the Hazaras

Unending agony The kidnapping and shooting dead at close range of at least 11 coal miners in Balochistan’s Mach area after being...

License to Kill?

A young man’s killing raises worrying questions about the police The killing of Osama Satti, 21, in the wee hours of Saturday,...

Going offline

Shutting down free WiFi cutting off nose to spite the face? The Punjab government managed to put itself on the wrong side...

The NAB loses credibility

Cases being instituted at PM’s directions? PM Imran Khan repeats, almost compulsively, that he would not give an NRO to opposition leaders...

Political appointments

Lahore CCPO removal was inevitable Another one of the many pre-election promises made by the PTI that the party has abysmally failed...

Political appointments

Lahore CCPO removal was inevitable Another one of the many pre-election promises made by the PTI that the party has abysmally failed...