2024-12-14-01-38

President Xi’s warning

EDITORIAL: Chinese President Xi has warned the incoming Trump administration that there will be no winners in a ... Updated 14 Dec, 2024 08:25am

2024-12-14-01-38

Curbs on digital freedoms

EDITORIAL: In yet another example of how the government’s high-handed approach towards controlling of digital... Updated 14 Dec, 2024 08:27am

2024-12-13-01-43

Blaming IMF for inflation!

EDITORIAL: In response to a query from a member of the Treasury benches, Tahira Aurangzeb, the Ministry of Finance... Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:27am

2024-12-13-01-43

An unnecessary disputation

EDITORIAL: The madressah’s registration bill has ended up triggering an unsavoury controversy between the ... Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:33am

2024-12-12-01-57

Rising remittance flows

EDITORIAL: Remittances surged by 34 percent year-on-year to 14.76 billion dollars July-November 2024 against 11... Updated 12 Dec, 2024 08:03am

2024-12-12-01-57

Low voter turnout

EDITORIAL: It is reasonable to assume that more and more people in this country are keen to exercise their right to... Updated 12 Dec, 2024 08:04am

2024-12-11-12-42

Rethinking housing solutions

**EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s timely observations while addressing the International... Updated 11 Dec, 2024 08:21am

2024-12-11-12-42

Continuing turmoil in the Middle East

EDITORIAL: Western and Middle Eastern capitals and commentators alike taking comfort in the fall of the Assad regime... Updated 11 Dec, 2024 08:19am

2024-12-10-01-21

Inflation declines, but where’s feel-good factor?

EDITORIAL: Sensitive Price Index (SPI) for the week ending 5 December 2024 was 3.57 percent year on year, a massive... Published 10 Dec, 2024 06:31am

2024-12-10-01-21

Reforming juvenile justice

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s struggles with establishing the rule of law for the most vulnerable members of its ... Published 10 Dec, 2024 06:34am

2024-12-09-01-32

Elite capture

EDITORIAL: In economic terms an elite is defined as external rent seekers comprising of an entity or a group who... Updated 09 Dec, 2024 08:08am

2024-12-09-01-32

Navigating the LNG conundrum

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s decision to defer an LNG purchase agreement with Qatar by a year - whether tied to the 2016... Updated 09 Dec, 2024 08:09am

2024-12-08-12-19

Pakistan’s semiconductor policy

EDITORIAL: Recently, drafting of a “Semiconductor Policy and Action Plan” by the Ministry of Information... Published 08 Dec, 2024 02:56am

2024-12-08-12-19

Give dialogue a chance

EDITORIAL: In a political climate ridden with strife and conflict, the PPP’s decision on December 2 to engage in... Published 08 Dec, 2024 02:56am

2024-12-07-01-04

Pledge to IMF reforms

EDITORIAL: Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, during a recent briefing to the National Assembly Standing... Updated 07 Dec, 2024 08:47am

2024-12-07-01-04

Water scarcity

EDITORIAL: Water scarcity and mismanagement of water resources has increasingly become a critical global issue,... Updated 07 Dec, 2024 08:49am

2024-12-06-01-41

Cultivating self-reliance: roadmap for edible oil

EDITORIAL: The Ministry of Commerce’s plan to draft a comprehensive edible oil policy presents a pivotal opportunity... Updated 06 Dec, 2024 02:48pm

2024-12-06-01-41

Petroleum industry: a messy corner of economy

EDITORIAL: Petroleum sales have picked up and reached a 25-month high in November. The increase is attributed mainly... Updated 06 Dec, 2024 08:00am

2024-12-05-12-48

Retirement age proposal

EDITORIAL: The recent proposal to reduce retirement age from 60 to 55 years for the bureaucracy warrants a serious... Published 05 Dec, 2024 07:16am

2024-12-05-12-48

Lifting of ban on PIA

EDITORIAL: The European Aviation Safety Agency’s decision last week to finally remove the four-year ban on PIA... Updated 05 Dec, 2024 07:11am

2024-12-04-12-50

Inflation slide arrested

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) revealed a 4.9 percent Consumer Price Index, a 2.3 percent decline... Published 04 Dec, 2024 03:14am

2024-12-04-12-50

Fragile calm in Kurram

EDITORIAL: Too many precious lives have been lost in intermittent eruption of violence between warring tribes in... Published 04 Dec, 2024 03:14am

2024-12-03-12-58

100 percent tariffs for BRICS

EDITORIAL: US President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media platform, that if BRICS countries... Updated 03 Dec, 2024 06:46am

2024-12-03-12-58

The case for dedicated tax benches

EDITORIAL: The Chief Justice of Pakistan’s proposal to establish dedicated benches for tax-related cases is a... Updated 03 Dec, 2024 06:43am

2024-12-02-02-21

ADR tax: SBP steps in, FBR must step out

EDITORIAL: Due to the imposition of the Advance to Deposits Ratio (ADR) tax by the federal government, banks have... Updated 02 Dec, 2024 07:18am

2024-12-02-02-21

Third-party gas sales: Tread with caution

EDITORIAL: It is not quite a storm yet, but the Sindh government’s opposition to the idea of oil and gas... Updated 02 Dec, 2024 07:19am

2024-12-01-12-34

External borrowing

EDITORIAL: Data released by the Economic Affairs Division indicates that foreign inflows for the first four months ... Published 01 Dec, 2024 03:13am

2024-12-01-12-34

UN report on femicides

EDITORIAL: The 2023 UN report on femicides underlines, all over again, the persistent failure of societies to ... Published 01 Dec, 2024 03:13am