Najma Minhas
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Najma Minhas is Managing Editor, Global Village Space.She has worked in New York and London with the National Economic Research Associates and with the Investment Bank, Lehman Brothers and Standard Chartered Bank.She is an analyst and appears on many national Pakistani TV channels. She has contributed pieces for The Foreign policy, The Diplomat, Islamic, The Nation and other newspapers.She has Masters degrees in International Relations from Columbia University and in Economics from the London School of Economics.She tweets @MinhasNajma
December 2020 Issue
What President Joe Biden and PM Imran Khan May share
In March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, almost eight months before the US November elections, Joe Biden, then one of the several presidential candidates, wrote...
December 2020 Issue
PDM good start but will go nowhere!
Country’s opposition parties, after months of protracted negotiations trying to come together, finally unified under the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in end September. This...
December 2020 Issue
Editorial
Imran Khan’s strict belief in “smart lockdowns” definitely worked. While, Pakistan’s opposition parties, urban elite, the medical community and most in the world kept...
Digital Magazine
Pakistan’s strategic options after Indo-US Basic Exchange and Cooperation Agreement?
Days before the US elections, a significant development has occurred between India and the US, which will affect the strategic stability of the region....
Digital Magazine
India vs China: India calling for China’s Economic Boycott is only a Farcical Reality Show
They don’t know what hit them! This is how India’s Energizer bunny anchor Arnab Goswami, in his prime-time live telecast on Republic TV, was...
China
Wuhan spirit breaks down: Will India learn that it cannot have Chinese cake and eat it too?
In Jonathan Swift's 1738 farce "Polite Conversation," the character Lady Answerall says, "she cannot eat her cake and have her cake". A modern-sounding variant...
Digital Magazine
Pakistan Steel Mills: Sisyphean story of mismanagement, corruption & court interventions
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus – king of Ephyra – was punished by God Zeus to carry a massive boulder up a hill only to...
Digital Magazine
PM Imran Khan unleashes a dream: First CPEC SEZ takes off!
During his second visit to China in October 2019, PM Imran Khan had declared that CPEC phase-2 was the next big game and it...
Digital Magazine
FIEDMC: Flag carrier of public-private partnership in Pakistan
The successful ground-breaking of the Allama Iqbal Industrial City (AIIC), Pakistan’s first CPEC linked Special Economic Zone (SEZ), in the first week of January...
Digital Magazine
Pakistan Energy Mix: Overview of Gas Sector (Upstream)
Pakistan’s economy is known for its boom and bust cycles prevalent every five years. One of the major causes behind this is the mismanagement...
December 2019 Issue
Implementation of Axle Load Limit Regime: When and How?
“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo
On 24 October 2019, the Government of Pakistan suspended implementation...
Digital Magazine
Assam – National Register Citizens: Citizenship Defined through Religion?
It started at 9 am, and for the next six hours there was widespread blood-letting of men and women, the slaughter of young and...