Provincial budgets of 2025-26
There is generally a greater focus on the prospects for and likely features of the federal budget in the days before its presentation. This is increased by the lobbying, against…
Reimagining Pakistan’s financial architecture
Imagine the year 1624. The world has not yet imagined New York, let alone the Stock Exchange that would one day shape global finance. The Industrial Revolution is still more…
Judicial surrender
IN October 2023, when the Supreme Court struck down the military trials of civilians, the detailed judgement began with the following quote: “even amid the clash of arms, the laws…
A broken social contract
Power is amoral. It has no religion, either. It listens only to those it feels threatened by. So, how can a country deliver social, economic, and political empowerment to its…
Commercial courts
“There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.” —…
Rationalizing priorities for federal and provincial budgets
For a country to be among the top ten countries in the world in terms of population, and with more than 60 percent of its population below 30 years of…
Joining the social connectivity dots
People are strange. I am socially awkward. I want “me” time. I am a private person. Wish I was an extrovert. These are some comments that we hear from people…
Zakat as non-state social welfare
THE last few years have proven to be immensely difficult for low-income households in Pakistan. High rates of inflation and low economic growth have exacerbated poverty and heightened the importance…
Trump officials push immigrant gang message, but sometimes don’t back it up in court
As US President Donald Trump’s administration cracks down on immigration, its officials have repeatedly publicly identified detainees as gang leaders or even terrorists, without attempting to back those inflammatory claims…
