BY holding the policy interest rate steady while cutting the cash reserve requirement for banks, the State Bank appears to have clearly signalled a significant recalibration of its stance in favour of...
AS the KP government and the centre squabble over who ordered the evacuation of civilians from Tirah in order to pave the way for a counterterrorism operation, local people are caught in no man’s la...
PAKISTAN’s first shipment of critical minerals to America in October last year, following a $500m agreement between a US company and the Frontier Works Organisation, was a milestone in an otherwise ...
PAKISTAN’S underprivileged are perennially left out in the cold. As mercury dives to single digits, the government’s refusal to treat the biting cold as a climate emergency is claiming lives. In C...
ALTHOUGH it seemed that US President Donald Trump had reconsidered his plans to stage an attack on Iran last week, an American military build-up in the region points to the fact that the danger of a c...
IT will be remembered as another low point in the history of Pakistan’s justice system. An Islamabad lawyer couple, often seen standing beside citizens challenging human rights violations, has been ...
IN the aftermath of the Gul Plaza fire, a war of words has erupted between the MQM and PPP over the poor state of civic affairs in Karachi, with the two federal coalition partners blaming each other f...
IN the rarefied environs of Davos, the Board of Peace — a Trumpian addition to the world of multilateral bodies — was formally birthed on Thursday. Pakistan was among around 20 other states that s...
BOTH Houses finally have an opposition leader endorsed by the majority on the opposition benches. The missing pillars of parliament have thus been restored, and both the government and opposition part...
FOR now, Pakistan’s return to a current account deficit in the first half of the fiscal year is less a cause for worry than a reminder of how fragile the external balance remains once growth resumes...