The politicians of Pakistan are incapable of saying anything without indulging in coloured phrases of rhetorical exaggeration. The pathetic grandiloquence of their speeches is invariably laced with barbs against their…
Pakistan's economic team has now openly acknowledged that it has begun preliminary talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a new assistance package. The IMF revealed to this paper…
The recently enacted 20th Amendment to the Constitution purports to put in place a credible caretaker setup for holding fair and impartial general elections. Would the new provisions be sufficient…
IT is yet another episode of ‘from power to prison’, a tragicomedy long played on Pakistan’s political stage. The plot is predictable: yet another former prime minister bites the dust.…
WILL the dissolution of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies be accompanied by the announcement of an election date? There has been considerable speculation of late around the controversial new…
MORE than six months after one of our most blatantly rigged elections, we have barely inched forward on resolving election disputes. A recent Fafen report shows that 23 election tribunals…
For decades the public at large has been agitating in futility against electricity tariff hikes and power cuts. This summer, bitten by IMF’s withdrawal of multiple concessions to the industry,…
With the green signal given by the incoming PDM 2.0 to the Ministry of Finance to initiate ground work for another (International Monetary Fund) IMF programme, IMF’s willingness to work…
When the chips are down, the going gets tough and as a consequence taking hard and strategic decisions becomes inevitable. The incumbent government took two policy decisions this week with a…
The people of Pakistan are neck-deep in a sea of rising poverty, soaring inflation and high unemployment. They were expecting some relief from the caretaker government, but the current setup…
