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ECONOMIC policymaking requires private-sector buy-in to succeed. Yet our policymakers have rarely sought it without political prodding from the top. Even when they do, their instinct is to bury, ignor...
WITH the PTI determined to march on the capital on Sept 27, a legal challenge to the planned protest has been lodged in the Islamabad High Court. The petitioner — ostensibly an Islamabad trader — ...
IT has been quite something to watch a whisper become, in a matter of weeks, the state’s new “number one priority”. The trigger was the interior minister’s surprising admission at the Pakistan...
WITH the world’s focus regarding the US-Iran war largely on the conflict’s geopolitical dimensions and its impact on the global economy, the human toll is often overlooked. On Sept 1, as hostiliti...
THE world is edging into climate territory governments have spent years trying to avoid. A new UN Environment Programme report warns that the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C warming threshold is likely to ...
THE Israeli defence minister has recently confirmed what many across the world already know: the Zionist state seeks to ethnically cleanse the occupied territories of their native Palestinian inhabita...
PAKISTAN has raised a record $3bn in its single largest international capital market transaction through a dual-tranche Eurobond sale that drew nearly $6bn in total orders. When international investor...
PAKISTAN’S request to Unesco to consider Rani Ghat and Banbhore for the World Heritage List is welcome. It follows the recent expansion of the country’s tentative list from 25 to 37 properties, wi...
WHILE diplomatic efforts are underway to restore dialogue with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, as the Foreign Office has pointed out, talks can only succeed when there is a firm commitment from Kabul to en...
THE Islamabad High Court earlier this week ruled on two petitions challenging the conditions in which former prime minister Imran Khan and former first lady Bushra Bibi have been kept in Adiala Jail, ...