Opinion Brent and Bibi Two bunch of people would have started this week with long faces. One, swing traders with long Brent positions... Published 18 Apr, 2024 03:24am
Opinion The irreplaceable Samdhi Dar To understand why the foreign minister replaced the finance minister at the CCI (Council of Common Interests) you... Published 04 Apr, 2024 04:56am
Opinion Russia, IS-K and threat of world war If IS-K (Islamic State-Khorasan) really did strike Moscow this week – and it has hit concerts and football matches... Published 28 Mar, 2024 06:47am
Opinion Hawkish SBP, happy IMF Some say it was stubborn food inflation that forced SBP’s hand at the MPC, combining with the usual Ramazan effect... Updated 21 Mar, 2024 06:35am
Opinion ‘Large and long’? Not much of what new finance minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, said in his first official media interaction was new –... Published 14 Mar, 2024 03:00am
Opinion IMF programme will test SIFC Two is a trend, they say, and twice in two weeks now the market has shrugged off concerns of international rating... Published 29 Feb, 2024 04:41am
Opinion Default, then? Fitch’s doubts about securing a post-SBA (Stand-By Arrangement) IMF lifeline show that even leading IFIs... Published 22 Feb, 2024 06:55am
Opinion Mr Market’s periscope Mr Market knows best, goes the old saying, so perhaps its best to look at the wild swings at the stock exchange to... Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am
Opinion I’m not voting None of the top politicians and political parties making promises about free houses and hundreds of electricity... Updated 08 Feb, 2024 08:42pm
Opinion Joe Biden’s dilemma The killing of three US servicemen in a drone strike on the Syrian-Jordanian border, claimed by Iran-backed group... Published 01 Feb, 2024 04:52am
Opinion TTP after Pakistan-Iran confrontation Nobody’s talked about it yet, but you can be sure that one party that watched the Iran-Pakistan missile and drone... Published 25 Jan, 2024 04:23am
Opinion Maulana tries, and fails For what it’s worth, Fazlur Rahman’s trip to Kabul has left me five hundred rupees richer. I bet with a... Published 11 Jan, 2024 06:15am
Opinion Job of a journalist It’s still hard to figure out which is worse. Pretty and/or entitled brats with fancy connections landing... Updated 28 Dec, 2023 05:13am
Opinion Perfect storm Who could’ve known that Yemeni Houthis, battered and broken after almost a decade of ugly war, will light the fuse... Published 21 Dec, 2023 03:54am
Opinion So they’ll flood the tunnels now? You have to see it to believe it, but it seems one of the unintended casualties of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is... Published 14 Dec, 2023 05:24am
Opinion Why Erdogan is right about Hamas Why do you think Genocide Joe – POTUS’s new nickname advocated by American Muslim champions of the Abandon Biden... Published 07 Dec, 2023 04:35am
Opinion Only Gaza will decide about its future Now is the time, with a four-day truce in place, to listen to the resistance in Gaza about a solution to the ... Published 23 Nov, 2023 03:19am
Opinion In extremis, anything is possible! Oh hush hush, ummah’s leaders, lest you wake. Heads of Muslim states, from rich Arab princes and kings to ... Updated 16 Nov, 2023 06:07am
Opinion Horrors of Yemen, the forgotten war This week’s column is an embarrassed response to a riveting reader’s comment from last week, where I lamented... Published 09 Nov, 2023 05:38am
Opinion On the table, getting carved Israel’s success in bulldozing all attempts of international mediation in the Gaza conflict (thank you Uncle Sam)... Published 02 Nov, 2023 03:16am