Shahab Jafry

If Moody’s says so, then it’s got to be true. Delivering Pakistan a precious feather-in-the-cap upgrade at this fragile time, the ratings agency said it expected the “IMF board to approve the EFF (Extended Fund Facility) in the next few weeks”.

So, another week has passed and there’s still no update about the fate of the IMF bailout programme – except that the finance minister has shifted from giving approximate dates to dismissing questions with “talks are in an advanced stage”.

You know you’re following the right journalists, amid all the noise and international media hijack of the Gaza...

Now I’m told that this ugly executive-judiciary fight threatens to unravel the sacrosanct “balance between...

I said and I said, even sneaked it into editorials where the editor has the last say, that Iran would most definitely retaliate even as experts and analysts loaded the local and international press with sobering assessments that the ayatollahs would not “fall into Israel’s trap of an all-out war”.

The panic attack in the crude oil market must have lit up Sleepy Joe’s phone with frantic calls from the Treasury as...

Far from making Israel’s northern Galilee region inhabitable again – Netanyahu’s rationale for expanding the...

The only surprise in the IMF team’s surprise visit to Pakistan this week was that it took the trouble to jolt the...

It didn’t take long for headlines out of Syria to turn, did it? Locals that set fire to Hafez al Assad’s grave...

A former Afghan journalist I once ran into in China – one who gave up a comfortable life in the Gulf to return to...