Articles by Editorial
THE IMF’s approval of the latest review of Pakistan’s ongoing Fund programme comes at a moment of growing global economic volatility. With the Middle East crisis disrupting energy markets, its tim...
THE government’s commitment to the IMF to scrap untargeted residential electricity subsidies from next year and replace them with a targeted support mechanism through the Benazir Income Support Prog...
PAKISTAN’S climate debate is finally beginning to move beyond post-disaster calls for aid and donor conferences. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has implicitly acknowledged that the era when the...
IT appears that despite confrontational rhetoric from both sides, a more long-term agreement on cessation of hostilities between the US and Iran may be within reach.
Matters had heated up on Monday in...
A YEAR since India launched unprovoked attacks against Pakistan using the Pahalgam tragedy as an excuse, and this country defended itself with full vigour, the stalemate in South Asia continues.
The p...
WITH the Strait of Hormuz caught in a dangerous limbo, the global energy markets have entered the most uncertain period of their history. Last month, the International Energy Agency predicted that bot...
ACROSS the Middle East, three main hotspots should remain cause for concern for the international community: the ‘frozen’ Iran war, the Lebanese conflict, and the dire humanitarian situation in Ga...
THE citizenry forgets, to its own peril, how important a free and independent media is in the preservation of their personal freedoms.
Today, on World Press Freedom Day, it is worth reflecting on the ...
THE US and Iran are currently somewhere between war and peace. While a tenuous ceasefire — extended largely due to Pakistan’s efforts — still holds, negotiations are deadlocked, and both states ...
THE annual observance of May Day should move beyond statements about the state’s commitment to the rights of workers and serve, instead, as a stock-taking exercise to see how far the nation lags beh...
