The cost of economic dependency
Ayaz Ahmed | Pakistan's protracted economic reliance on the US and some international financial institutions (IFIs) has seemingly deprived our geo-economically important country of an...
How to make health news interesting — without overselling the claims
Petroc Sumner & Rachel Adams | Health stories are prolific in the news. Each year, thousands of articles are published claiming to have the latest...
Re-engineering of economy
Dr. Farid A Malik | ‘You can have pound of flesh but cannot draw blood’. These are the lines from the 16th century play ‘Merchant...
Climate change: Sea level rise could displace millions of people within two generations
Jonathan Bamber & Michael Oppenheimer | Antarctica is further from civilization than any other place on Earth. The Greenland ice sheet is closer to home...
Govt. should step up to increase textile export
Dr. Omer Javed | When the PTI government took office, it inherited a huge current account deficit, and it was assumed that it would take...
Afghan Talks: Sticking points include the spoiling role of India – Jan Achakzai
Jan Achakzai | As Doha talks have entered into a very crucial phase, there are signs of some critical issues defying the consensus between the...
Trouble in the Gulf as US-Iran dispute threatens to escalate into serious conflict
Tony Walker | The last thing the world needs at a moment of significant trade tensions between the United States and China is a Middle...
A panoramic view of Pakistan’s banking system
Raza Jafri | Banks play an important intermediary role in any economy, transferring money from savers (depositors) to the users of capital (the borrowers). Banks...
Alarming Iran-US tension – Zafar Nawaz Jaspal
Dr. Zafar Nawaz Jaspal | President Donald Trump has been stating Iran nuclear and missile program to vindicate his diplomatic actions against the country and...
Why parents should think twice about tracking apps for their kids
Joel Michael Reynolds | The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now apps to monitor...
European elections guide: What’s actually on the ballot paper?
Paula Keaveney | Despite plans to go ahead with Brexit, the UK will now participate in elections to the European Parliament on May 23. Voting in...
Intra-Faith Bias and the Law – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | The month of Ramzan, in Pakistan, is flush with religious sentimentality. Religious scholars grace our televisions screens all day and naat-khawa’n dazzle...