There is Nothing Special about Special Economic Zones – Saud Bin Ahsen
Saud Bin Ahsen | Special Economic Zones (SEZ) are promoted around the globe mainly in the less developed countries as a strategy to industrialize, accelerate...
The shortcomings of IMF programme – Dr. Omer Javed
Dr. Omer Javed | IMF programmes are highly tilted towards aggregate demand management, and least focused on supply-sided impetus. Also, they ask for following a...
Skills development for inclusive and sustainable growth – M Zafar Khan Safdar
M Zafar Khan Safdar | Akin to democracy, free markets, freedom of the press and universal human rights, education is one of those subjects whose...
‘PSYOP’ against Pakistan: The ‘Propaganda’ about the Israeli Plane Landing in Islamabad
Sabtain Ahmed Dar | The arrival of a mysterious plane that reportedly took off from Tel Aviv and landed in Islamabad on 24th October has...
Dalit Priests: Kerala makes history with large scale appointments
M K Bhadrakumar | So, finally, Bharatiya Janata Party has identified the company it keeps in the Sabarimala issue and implicitly underscored its hidden agenda...
Fear: The Root of Trump’s power – Jacob G Hornberge
Jacob G Hornberger | In every welfare-warfare state, the people in charge are committed to maintaining their power and control over the lives, income, assets,...
Escaping accountability? – Saad Rasool
Saad Rasool | When the Panama Leaks scandal took the world by storm, shaking the very foundations of politics in Pakistan, there was widespread criticism...
I see a world financial crisis brewing soon! – Mir Ali Khan
Mir Ali Khan | The last time I had written something along these lines was in December 2014 because of China, Commodities, Crude Oil and...
Is it time for Israel-Pakistan potential talks? – Jan Achakzai
Jan Achakzai | Israeli Prime Minister’s visit to Oman, the tiny Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country and meeting the Sultan of Oman, Sayyid Qaboos bin...
Defamation under freedom of expression
Abdul Rasool | The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) made history by rejecting the plea by an Austrian woman that her conviction for blaspheming...
Are Khashoggi’s alleged murderers immune from prosecution?
Ali Hassan | On Oct. 22, the Government of Saudi Arabia admitted that the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered inside the country’s consulate...
The richest yet the least influential dead man
Imran Jan | Mohammad Bin Salman, referred to by his initials MBS, in March pledged to invest $400 bn in the United States in ten...