Economic balance
THE core of the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) movement was the economic and democratic organisation of society, because the fulcrum of the Quranic message is human integration on the principle of…
The making of Marxism
Time has scarcely dulled the power of Karl Marx’s ideas, whose 207th birthday the world marks today (May 5). His vision of a post-capitalist society is the ‘invisible hand’ behind…
Tariffs and non-neoliberal globalization – I
When there is something fundamentally wrong, it needs to be fixed to the extent that those fundamentals get corrected through a policy that takes least time, and minimum disturbance. It…
Tariffs and non-neoliberal globalization – II
US President Donald Trump recently enhanced tariffs unilaterally on all countries – with a base uniform tariff of 10 percent applied on all countries, along with half of the ratio…
Tariffs and non-neoliberal globalization – I
When there is something fundamentally wrong, it needs to be fixed to the extent that those fundamentals get corrected through a policy that takes least time, and minimum disturbance. It…
The population paradigm
For decades, Pakistan’s population discourse has been anchored in an outdated narrative: the country’s growing numbers are viewed as the primary obstacle to development. With a population exceeding 242 million,…
A six-million-dollar banana?
LADIES and gentlemen, imagine a hypothetical experiment. Suppose I buy a banana for Rs10 and tape it to a wall. At the end of this rather banal experiment, what if…
The end or a new dawn?
Ever since Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the triumph of liberalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union – the so-called ‘red peril’ – many around the world celebrated liberalism as the…
Milei, Argentina and Pakistan
ARGENTINA, in many respects, resembles Pakistan. Once the superstar economy of South America doing reasonably well, it has had to go through repeated economic turmoil through decades, making it a familiar…
Pakistan’s Hobbesian nightmare
HUMAN history is replete with governance innovations. Some of these have changed the course of history. But perhaps none was as cataclysmic and transformational as the founding of the ‘nation…
