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Diminishing musharika

Conceptually, Islamic Banking broadly connotes as a banking which is in consonance with the ethos and value system of Islam and is being governed by the principles of Islamic Shariah…

Manipulating consent

The advent of information technology was rightly hailed as a game-changing development. No other scientific intervention in history has revolutionized the manner of human interaction and thought formation the way…

What nations remember

One of the primary goals of any country is to ensure its survivability. Had Pakistan not maintained its robust armed forces, it would have been prey to the Indian assault…

The future of electric vehicles [Part – II]

Are electric vehicles (EVs) economical or affordable? Although an EV may not be exactly economical, it is fast approaching the required cost objectives. Rising demand and scale economies would bring…

Tax incentives for NRPs — I

The coalition government of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on February 11, 2021 opted to issue second Presidential Ordinance VI of 2021 [Tax Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021] inserting new provisions and amending…

Failure of the marketplace of ideas

Last week saw a mob of armed insurrectionists, numbering in the thousands, storm Capitol Hill and burst into the halls and offices of the Senate and Congress. Trump-friendly media outlets…

The C/A slide

There has been a sustained erosion of the rupee value vis-a-vis the dollar subsequent to the categorical statement by the caretaker finance minister Dr Shamshad Akhtar that market intervention to…

Superior judiciary: Curtailment of powers

The question what 'Public Interest Litigation' means and is has been deeply surveyed, explored and explained not only by various judicial pronouncements in many countries but also by eminent judges,…

Ethical themes

OVER the centuries, Quranic concepts of an egalitarian human society have either been forgotten, or diluted through simple-mindedness, narrowness of thought and need for political mileage. Scholarship and discourse have…