Selected or elected PMs?
Despite being a constitutional democracy since August 14, 1973, mass confusion prevails in the mechanism of transition of power in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Selected PMs have badly failed…
Is the party over?
WHAT is the PTI’s electoral future after recent events? The answer in the short term, unfortunately for its remaining party leaders, depends more on the military leadership than on any…
Making sand castles
WHY have some elements had an odd addiction to making shaky political sand castles that soon collapse? Free polls rejuvenate the political process. Incumbents defend their track record; opponents propose…
The issue that matters
IS the Pakistani public obsessed with politics? Or is it the media which is fuelling the impression that this is what the nation wants and, therefore, every day reams of…
Battle with ‘alternative facts’
ECONOMIC stabilisation through tough, unpopular measures such as withdrawal of the fuel subsidy or a cut in development expenditure, against the backdrop of public mobilisation by the Imran Khan-led PTI, seems a…
What should Pakistan do? ( Part – III )
Yet another finance minister walks into Q Block, facing the challenge of finalizing an IMF bailout package as his priority. When power was handed over to Benazir Bhutto after the…
Challenges, challenges
The shape of the post-election regime has been more or less settled, with the remaining Presidential election on March 9, 2024 too a foregone conclusion in favour of Asif Ali…
Elections loom amid a myriad questions
The bizarre is not only commonplace, some argue it is the norm in Pakistan. Take for example the latest offering by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in power to appoint…
Recalibrating governance: Part – I
An economy is driven by the contributions and interactions of state, society and markets. Before we take up the agenda for recalibrating governance and institutions intermediating and administering governance and…
Pakistan and the STEAM economy [Part – III]
The mode of education in Pakistan – which is transactional with teachers and faculty leading the way and the students having little choice but to fall in line and go…
