How “leaders” caused mayhem in the National Assembly
The past few years have seen a new buzzword, or perhaps more accurately, a buzz term, enter the country’s political discourse; ‘supremacy of parliament’....
Was Quaid-e-Azam’s Pakistan meant to be a secular state?
|Qamar Islam The argument for Pakistan’s creation was the two-nation theory i.e., that Muslims and Hindus were two separate nations on the basis of their...
Did PTI present a pro-people budget?
Sajid Iqbal The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is expecting 3.94% annual growth in the coming year (2021-2022). The expectation fairly raises an eyebrow because of...
Why Pakistan needs to keep businessmen out of politics
My father was a businessman and so was my grandfather. The family principles being: Indulge only in business, do not seek employment; finances must...
Watch: How Hindu ‘leaders’ spew hatred against Muslims
India is still groaning under the pandemic. Three thousand to four thousand patients still succumb to the disease each day; the government’s premature claim...
Did America’s flawed foreign policy give rise to militancy?
There is little doubt that the key principles governing the US foreign policy have been violence, destruction, and bloodshed associated with fueling the conditions...
The past, present and future of PTV
As the new Minister in charge of, inter alia, PTV, Fawad Chaudhry can bring some much-needed zest and reform to this national institution.
Budget 2021 and the whines of fading hopes
Another budget for Pakistan has been released by the PTI government. Three years in power and three finance ministers tried to maintain the precision...
Is Iran on the verge of full SCO membership?
Eager to enhance its negotiating leverage with the United States and Europe, Iran is projecting imminent membership of the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)...
Does Pakistan need the Chicago Boys to save its economy?
In 1956 the University of Chicago and Santiago's Universidad Cato'lica--with the help of Ford Foundation--signed an exchange agreement to send young economics students to...
Pakistan’s blame game and ways to end it
“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” Robert N. Anthony The quote by Robert N. Anthony epitomizes our understanding of how...
Operation Barbarossa: Did Stalin foresee Hitler’s attack? (Part two)
After the failed November 1940 discussions in Berlin, of the Soviet Union's foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov, both he and his leader Joseph Stalin occasionally...