Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar referred to some statistics, specifically unemployment, released by the Economic Survey 2012-13 as ''politically expedient'' and therefore not credible. Unemployment rate of 6 percent in…
With the fall of Hasina Wazed, the Prime Minister (PM), Bangladesh has started to move outside the Indian Halo. Once the dust settles, future course of action will unfold as…
Pakistan is a resourceful country and has immense potential for growth, progress and prosperity. Our people are diligent, capable and ingenious. We have a natural resource base richer and more…
Politics is the means to power, and power enables proximity to resource. This is the essence in any political process. At times ideology tampers with this simple equation – and…
This is the second of a two-part series on Pakistani administration’s focus on domestic factors while ignoring external factors which have a much greater relevance in formulation of our domestic…
IT is worth understanding why despite large-scale and detrimental changes to judicial independence, widespread electoral manipulation last February, and severe curtailment of civil liberties in various forms, resistance to these acts has…
Ever since Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the triumph of liberalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union – the so-called ‘red peril’ – many around the world celebrated liberalism as the…
The 1973 Constitution was enacted unanimously by a legislative assembly elected through free and fair elections held on December 07, 1970. There were no street protests to any clause of…
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for October 2024 was 7.2 percent against 6.9 percent the month before – a rise of 0.3 percent which, barring June 2024 when it rose…
Articles 240, 241, and 242 of Pakistan’s Constitution lay the groundwork for the civil service appointment process, specifically through the establishment of the Public Service Commission (PSC) as a constitutional…
