Reclaiming Iqbal’s vision
Allama Muhammad Iqbal – poet–philosopher, jurist and one of the most original Muslim thinkers of the 20th century – remains a towering guide for nations seeking moral and economic renaissance.…
Big Tech’s job mirage
Silicon Valley’s success story – built by Amazon, Google, Meta, Apple and Microsoft – has reshaped the popular imagination with promises of economic dynamism, innovation and thousands of high-skilled jobs.…
Bordering on connectivity
For decades, Pakistan’s borders have symbolised more control than connectivity. Every truck stopped at a dusty checkpoint, every queue snaking across Torkham or Chaman, told a story of missed opportunities.…
Dissecting Pakistan?
Islamabad is lately abuzz with some ‘Good Samaritan’ voices demanding Pakistan’s division into more than a dozen provinces to ‘improve’ administration and governance. Similar clamour is being generated from select…
Democracy reclaimed
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral election is the moral repudiation of an establishment that mistook political access for virtue and money for merit. Against a torrent of…
Nadeem granted extension as acting HEC chief
Prime Minister Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has granted extension to Secretary Ministry of federal education and professional training Nadeem Mahbub as the acting chairperson of the Higher Education Commission for…
Withering geoeconomics
IT was almost exactly three years ago that a paper was published by Moeed Yusuf and his co-author Rabia Akhtar arguing in favour of a pivot away from geopolitics towards geoeconomics as…
Protecting democratic ideals
THE modern authoritarian threat reminds one of an old saying attributed to Mark Twain: “Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” However, Yale history professor Timothy…
A faltering trajectory
THE scale of havoc wreaked by the dual crises of high inflation and stuttering growth, especially since 2021, is gradually taking on clear, quantitative form. The implications these crises pose…
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…
