2026-06-21-12-15

A preventable tragedy

EDITORIAL: The horrific loss of at least 10 lives, including five children, in a fiery crash on the Islamabad-Murree... Published 21 Jun, 2026 02:30am

2026-06-20-12-38

US-Iran breakthrough

EDITORIAL: With President Donald Trump and his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian finally signing the Islamabad... Updated 20 Jun, 2026 05:39am

2026-06-20-12-38

Health spending: the cost of neglect

EDITORIAL: The latest Pakistan Economic Survey 2025-26 presents a disturbing picture of the country’s public health... Updated 20 Jun, 2026 05:42am

2026-06-20-12-38

Why the secrecy

EDITORIAL: The government is hush-hush about the quantum of tax relief offered and new taxes imposed in the recently... Published 20 Jun, 2026 04:57am

2026-06-19-12-34

Sindh Budget

EDITORIAL: Sindh presented a 3,525 billion-rupee budget with the major reliance for revenue remaining on federal... Updated 19 Jun, 2026 02:56pm

2026-06-19-12-34

Pakistan’s savings crisis

EDITORIAL: One of the more underappreciated aspects of Pakistan’s economic malaise has been the alarming collapse in... Updated 19 Jun, 2026 06:24am

2026-06-18-12-34

Punjab Budget

EDITORIAL: The Punjab budget envisages total revenue of 1209 billion rupees from own resources (only 749 billion... Published 18 Jun, 2026 05:37am

2026-06-18-12-34

Beyond symbolic sanctions

EDITORIAL: France’s decision to ban Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, in... Updated 18 Jun, 2026 05:59am

2026-06-17-12-48

Maintaining the policy rate

EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee met on the previously scheduled date – 15 June – and decided to keep the... Published 17 Jun, 2026 05:36am

2026-06-17-12-48

From oil shock to hunger crisis

EDITORIAL: The United Nations is now warning that a global hunger crisis feared at the outset of the Middle East... Published 17 Jun, 2026 05:36am

2026-06-16-12-53

Fiscal fault lines could test budget outlook

EDITORIAL: While the FY2026-27 budget has been framed as a pro-growth package aimed at reviving economic activity... Published 16 Jun, 2026 04:12am

2026-06-16-12-53

A nation failing its children

EDITORIAL: The scale of Pakistan’s child labour crisis came into sharp focus at the International Labour... Published 16 Jun, 2026 04:12am

2026-06-15-01-01

Policy contradictions stall progress

EDITORIAL: One of the more damaging flaws of governance in Pakistan today is the disconnect between what... Published 15 Jun, 2026 02:32am

2026-06-15-01-01

The price of delay

EDITORIAL: Billions of rupees worth of foreign-funded development projects are once again facing delays, not because... Published 15 Jun, 2026 02:32am

2026-06-14-12-47

Too important to trust locally?

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s long-term development challenge is no mystery. Child malnutrition, stunting, poor educational... Published 14 Jun, 2026 05:20am

2026-06-14-12-47

Forest fires: A growing environmental emergency

EDITORIAL: The devastating forest fire that recently swept through the Kotli Sattian area of Murree district in... Updated 14 Jun, 2026 07:00am

2026-06-13-01-13

The Budget

EDITORIAL: The federal finance minister, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, presented yesterday the third budget of the... Updated 13 Jun, 2026 06:44am

2026-06-12-12-33

Jul-Mar: growth poor, but still not too bad?

EDITORIAL: The 3.7 percent growth for 2025-26 in the Economic Survey, limited to nine months of data (July-March),... Published 12 Jun, 2026 06:08am

2026-06-12-12-33

Breaking the cycle of acid attacks

EDITORIAL: The horrific acid attack on a young female doctor at a government hospital in Quetta has once again... Published 12 Jun, 2026 06:08am

2026-06-11-12-51

The high cost of easy revenues

EDITORIAL: Pakistan is simultaneously running tight fiscal and monetary policies through primary fiscal surpluses... Published 11 Jun, 2026 05:06am

2026-06-11-12-51

Budget: getting close to plugging the gap

EDITORIAL: Credible though still unconfirmed reports suggest that the two major coalition partners - the Pakistan... Updated 11 Jun, 2026 06:52am

2026-06-10-01-18

Budget delayed, budget denied?

EDITORIAL: While technically there is no delay in the presentation of the budget to parliament, with 16 June the... Published 10 Jun, 2026 05:53am

2026-06-10-01-18

A fragile truce

EDITORIAL: The uneasy calm that followed the Iran-US truce agreed in April, and included a halt to hostilities in... Published 10 Jun, 2026 05:53am

2026-06-09-12-31

Taxing traders: a political test

EDITORIAL: The announcement last week of the Fixed Tax Asaan Scheme for small traders and shopkeepers is the latest... Published 09 Jun, 2026 04:58am

2026-06-09-12-31

A long-overdue harvest of common sense

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s decision to adopt a National Agricultural Biotechnology Policy comes after years of declining... Published 09 Jun, 2026 04:58am

2026-06-08-12-21

Budget 26-27: Stabilisation fatigue is now setting in

EDITORIAL: Balancing the budget is becoming increasingly difficult. Despite imposing exorbitant taxes on the formal... Updated 08 Jun, 2026 08:02am

2026-06-08-12-21

CPEC outcome

EDITORIAL: Federal Minister for Power, Sardar Awais Khan Leghari, during a press conference on Sunday, acknowledged... Published 08 Jun, 2026 02:29am

2026-06-07-12-52

The death of white gold

EDITORIAL: Punjab’s cotton acreage has fallen to its lowest level in nearly six decades, while national production... Published 07 Jun, 2026 05:11am