Analysis

The adversarial designs to isolate Pakistan still exist.

It is common wisdom that it saps the energy of a nation when country’s political leadership operates at cross-purposes

A rapidly growing part of Pakistan’s economy is freelance work.

What you allow is what will continue.

Arms races, as the aforementioned Latin adage reminds us, are as old as time.

The Indian government took no time either and held Islamabad responsible.

While we call them mafias, they see themselves as entrepreneurs.

But to be fair to PIA, it is not the only carrier in the world that finds itself floundering

Deforestation has resulted in a significant loss of tree cover in Pakistan.

IMF programme is, by definition, anti-growth and calls for steps to do away with macroeconomic imbalances.

Pakistan needs 5G plan, framework for spectrum-sharing, affordable IT devices

It will determine prices and promote competition among many players

Mining is a dangerous profession.

The law of jungle prevails in Karachi, and in such a situation things can only deteriorate.

President Erdogan unequivocally expressed his stance on Palestine and Afghanistan.

People saw hope in Erdogan - whereas they only lost hope in two democratic govts that exchanged hands in Pakistan

This will in turn play a significant role in the empowerment of rural women and minding the gender gaps.

This is no time for starry-eyed loyalty.

At times the leftists were our staunch adversaries while at times we more than glorified the extreme rightists.

It also deflects from India’s habit of continually mixing sports and politics

Trump’s Afghanistan strategy has audibly crumbled

Survival of the health sector depends on the “disruptive” forces to shake off the status quo

The pause in the Afghan peace process has had mixed results

PTI govt's economic stabilisation policy is yet to show any significant signs of fruition

This is a two-pronged strategy.

Was it because the profiteers have spent extensive time in Bani Gala?

Pakistan is brimming with paradox.

The best medical advice is to stay where you are, be confident and adopt all preventive measures.

We spent more than what we collected, imported way more than what we exported and did not save much.

Some may ask why the history of policy matters when there is inflation, shortage of flour and sky high prices of sugar

Maybe the corona epidemic can spark a social movement.

Does this performance warrant a rethink on part of Sindh govt seeking the police chief’s repatriation back to Centre?

The word reconciliation seems to be very notorious in Pakistan.

The Muslim world is engaged in political experimentation.

When Hindus left Pakistan during partition and in the mid-60’s, many temples were lost to encroachment.

Failure to boost tax collection, exports is pushing govt to continue to borrow

SECP, SBP must work together to ensure collective surveillance of these sales

Locusts can be controlled by community-based collection of insects and cash buyback

Fiscal deficit and food inflation will rise; farmers will be hurt by imports

Well-diversified portfolio will generate better risk-adjusted returns, protect from economic uncertainty

The number of cases pending in the Supreme Court has touched the record level in the country’s history.

The curious case of Karachi’s history is that it tends to repeat itself far too often.

But Imran Khan and his entire economic team seem to have no solution at hand

At the same time it should next do for sugar what it has done for wheat — free up the imports

How far and for how long will we maul IK and his government?

Anti-US sentiment on Pakistani streets has also sharply receded

Mr Hoodbhoy gave the example of Japan that it doesn’t have any ideology and that it thrives while we only survive

Senators have righteously rejected a proposal to increase their own salaries, fending off invariably harsh backlash

The hunger situation in India has worsened since 2014 when the Modi government came into power.

The statistics, however, does not support the government position