Lately, economic performance under various regimes based on certain indicators is the current focus of debate in the community of analysts. However, economic indictors cannot be seen in isolation. Economy…
Pakistan has struggled with chronic economic problems and a balance of payments crisis since independence. Its history of such crises and dependence on financial support of the International Monetary Fund…
It is nearly five months since floodwaters swept away Muhammad Fazal’s general store in southern Pakistan. Today, he is rebuilding his shop on taller, sturdier foundations - hopeful he will…
Many of us in Pakistan wonder when we will have a political leader we can be proud of and follow with some degree of true admiration. At the current time,…
Pakistan’s political sky is once again under the dark clouds of political instability. These cycles of instability come every three to four years and play havoc with the dangling economy…
THE story begins in the Udipi district of the coastal Indian state of Karnataka. Earlier this month, several female Muslim students were suddenly barred from entering the premises of the government school…
With the Covid-19 curve seemingly well on course to flattening it is but natural for the PTI-led coalition government of Prime Minister Imran Khan to walk the talk with visible…
Since the return to democracy in 2008, and faced with a shattered economy (starting with Musharraf’s inglorious exit), people have voted in elections for political parties’ promises of prosperity for…
Will history’s longest-ever bull market be followed by one of the shortest? It’s been just over a year since a new business cycle kicked off, yet the speed at which…
On May 6, residents of Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho favela were awakened by gut-wrenching screams and sounds of gunshots. Once the mayhem subsided and they gathered enough courage to step…
