What Ails Pakistan’s Economy – A Way forward

Pakistan economy has most of the time been at the brink of collapse and was repeatedly bailed out by world financial institutions. Whenever the...

Brexit to Coronavirus: Globalisation is on retreat?

With the rise of nationalism owing to the catapulting of Trumpian types to the highest echelons of power, this part of the twenty-first century...

Misuse and mismanagement of State resources

I was always impressed by the austerity of our parents' generation in general. Resources of the state, in particular, were handled even more prudently....

PTV Becoming Redundant, Losing its Glorious Past

Growing up in the Pakistan of 1980s, a time before Cartoon Network and HBO, one of my fondest childhood memories is Maa’a waking me...

Kashmir: A way forward

Iltija Mufti daughter of former Chief Minister of J&K Mehbooba Mufti appeared on a NDTV program (https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/the-big-fight/omar-abdullah-mehbooba-mufti-slapped-with-psa-violation-of-democracy-or-essential-for-normalcy-540116?livevideo-top-shows ) where she tried to give an...

Public hanging: Certainty not the severity of punishment matters

Resolution passed by National Assembly on Friday, calling for the public hanging of convicted child killers and rapists, has created quite a stir. The...

Humanity in the face of an ecological apocalypse

Sir Francis Bacon was a staunch critic of scientific method development but being a philosophical-scientific giant, atheists are gung-ho to recruit him as a...

Trump’s Middle East plan envisages only one state

The long-awaited US plan for resolving the intractable conflict between Palestine and Palestine was announced earlier this week, but the timing of the announcement...

Modi, Trump, Netanyahu: A new world order guided by might is right

Opinion | The real issue with US President Donald J. Trump’s Deal of the Century Israeli-Palestinian peace plan is not whether it stands a chance...

Pakistan’s youth remain intellectual cannon-fodder

Opinion | As these words are being written, scores of well-meaning but largely self-deluded political hocks are being wrongfully arrested and carted off to face...

State Bank’s monetary policy: A haunting future for Pakistan?

Opinion | There we have it again. Interest rate or the discount rate has been retained at 13.25% for another two months. Ignoring calls from...

Resurrection of political mafia

Without completely weeding out of the “political mafias,” the future of Pakistan will remain bleak. The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP), in its historic judgment...