The IMF has said it is not concerned with the Finance Minister’s move to freeze the federal petroleum development levy. By Ahmer Kureishi.
Op-Ed
Decoding Khan’s ruckus about the next army chief
Khan will rile up his foes. Khan will fight with all his might. Khan will do all it takes to stage a comeback. If you find it damaging to your polity, rest assured that is incidental.
Politics before polity?
By Ahmer Kureishi
It the end, it did not matter because the International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive board put its seal on the staff-level agreement made with Pakistan in July. But Pakistan is aghast that former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his inner coterie stooped to something treachery in high places does not begin to describe.
Digital composite by Independent Pakistan. Source images courtesy Wikipedia.org
Imran Khan’s war on Pakistan
Shebaz Gill and ARY are the first casualties of the former prime minister’s no-holds-barred campaign for supremacy over the Pakistani state, but the authorities must
Imran Khan, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
The tiger is coming
Former Prime Minister’s Imran Khan’s idea of contesting by-polls from all nine constituencies that fell vacant after the National Assembly Speaker accepted resignations of lawmakers from the his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has galvanised his following. By Ahmer Kureishi
Justice vs the Chief Justice
A crusader top judge has taken it upon himself to address all ills of the polity above and beyond Constitutional sanction. What could go wrong?
So who brought Pakistan to its knees?
By Ahmer Kureishi
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s party is levelling allegations that the people who ousted them from power have brought the country to its knees in three months.
Two women are seen wading in floodwater in a street in Karachi in this photo dated July 7, 2022. ONLINE PHOTO by Sabir Mazhar.
Tackling Karachi’s perennial flooding problem
By The Editors
Over the three days of Eid-ul-Azha this year, intermittent but frequent and heavy spells of rain over parts of Karachi killed more than two dozen residents of Pakistan’s most populous metropolis. This is the beginning of the Monsoon season for the port city.
Composite image by Independent Pakistan
Should Pakistan replace SBP with a currency board?
By Ahmer Kureishi
June, the final month of the last fiscal year saw wholesale inflation in Pakistan rise to a historic high of 38.9 percent per annum, giving rise to fears that the flood of consumer price inflation is about to turn into a tsunami. Already at this point, the consumer price index was at 21.32 percent per annum.
QUETTA: Relatives of missing persons holds sit-in-protest outside Press club for the recovery of their natives , who are missing from many years, in Provincial Capital. ONLINE PHOTO
Enforced Disappearances: The buck stops with the chief executive
Is Pakistan finally ready to turn the page on this dark chapter of its history? Ahmer Kureishi ISLAMABAD: The way the proceedings of a case