If you’ve followed Pakistani politics for two-and-a-half decades, especially as a journalist, you’ll understand that the present impasse, particularly in Punjab, is less about legality or constitutionality of discretionary powers…
On Saturday, US President Joe Biden ended his week-long tour of Europe to mobilize Nato for conflict with Russia with a belligerent rant in Warsaw, Poland. Media coverage of Biden’s…
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”, is a quote often misattributed to Winston Churchill. It could also be the motto of the fossil fuel industry. The day before…
The part-II of this series highlighted limits of monetary policy and the need for fiscal policy to take the main load of regenerating growth in the economy as the multiplier…
As Israel goes ahead with its sordid plan of razing buildings in Palestinian territories through aerial bombardment, attacking worshippers in Al-Aqsa Mosque and killing Palestinians including children in the latest…
It is difficult to select the best book from over a 100 odd books that Dr Mubarak Ali has written. The very first booklet by him that I read proved…
The Ishaq Dar-led Finance Ministry recently had occasion to crow - indicated by the dissemination of information through a press release as well as from the taxpayers funded official news…
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), in its recent First Quarterly Report 2019-20, has stated that the policy mix adopted so far, “appears adequate to address the macroeconomic imbalances and…
It would be hard to point to a country whose president who has more democratic legitimacy than Evo Morales. Nobody can seriously dispute that he won the first round of…
THERE is a strange impression that students have no rights as citizens. The truth is that a student is as much a citizen as anyone else. The fundamental rights that…
