Brighter future
THEY say that growth is best when built from the ground up. Recently, a new agricultural growth strategy was unveiled to the Pakistan cabinet. If approved, the seven-year plan aims…
The masses bringing change?
THE media is riveted to the news that the Congress party will elect a new president in October, one who will not be from the Nehru-Gandhi family. So what will…
Ill-advised brinkmanship
THE one question that was weighing on many minds as these lines were being written on Saturday afternoon was whether the simple question of who has a parliamentary majority and…
Whose hubris?
PUTIN’S ‘hubris’ is a popular theme for trenchant commentaries on Ukraine. One can see why. For truckloads of conventional Western pundits, the Ukraine tragedy began on the day of the…
Brick in the wall
I HAD to join Facebook, Twitter and Slack when I started graduate school in 2016 — for different messaging purposes. I thought all of this could be done on WhatsApp…
Resurgent yen brings high-flying Japan Inc back to earth
A resurgent yen helped bring Japanese stocks crashing back to earth on Monday, leaving investors scrambling to gauge the potentially diminished outlook for earnings, and snuffing out a months-long dramatic…
A blueprint for a brighter grid
Given the gruesome challenges of Pakistan’s power sector – high tariffs, inability to offer subsidies due to IMF constraints, excess installed capacity, and inadequate transmission capacity – a sophisticated and…
A brief history of our left: Part – II
In Pakistan, you are more likely to come across autobiographies of retired civil and military bureaucrats than from political activists and leaders. A majority of retired officers tend to spin…
Bringing burn care into focus
Burn injuries not only cause a great number of fatalities across the world but are also the most traumatic in nature. You will be surprised to know that death due…
Feeding Gaza: Traders run gauntlet of bullets, bombs and bribes
Mohammed describes a delivery job from hell. “I get screwed on every shipment,” the Gazan trader told Reuters. He said he has to fork out more than $14,000 for each…
