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?
Op-Ed
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.
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
Political stability goes before economic stabilisation
By Staff Reporter
A day after Moody’s downgraded Pakistan’s outlook from stable to negative citing “political and social risk”, British weekly the Economist has provided an apt translation for the obscure jargon: “Imran Khan is jeopardising Pakistan’s attempts to fix its economy”.
A sick political joke
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Where the manifest sexual innuendo Imran Khan poked at Maryam Nawaz betrays the degeneration of his cynical toxic masculinity, it also lays bare his personal libidinous frustration that men of his mentality gratify by telling the women, who challenge them socially, sexually, and politically, how “penetrable” they are. Shame. But it must be said.
To be or not to be … ruling
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has initiated a fresh round of consultations with his Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) allies over whether the coalition should continue in government or step down to make way for fresh elections, Independent Pakistan can report.
FILE PHOTO: COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa calls on PM Shehbaz Sharif
Reign of confusion
By Staff Reporter
Confusion is the order of day. Political instability, economic challenges, and constitutional crises seem to have grown all over Pakistan like stubborn fungi. It seems those at the helm of affairs have no prudent roadmap to steer the country through.
The game is on!
By Staff Reporter
There was a mighty downswing. No lofted drive. Bails take wing. The middle stump rattled. Clean bowled! What?