Fighting feudalism
Undoubtedly the world has made considerable progress and will continue do so in the future. Throughout the world, people have rebelled against archaic social norms and have successfully shunned toxic…
Who controls wealth?
The country’s economic situation is deteriorating rapidly, and the only solution we hear is to go to either the IMF or friendly countries for money. This situation has been in…
A failing state
As a result of massive corruption, Pakistan today is virtually in a state of economic bankruptcy, although this has not been officially admitted. Banks have stopped opening letters of credit…
Shah Latif’s message of wisdom
“Learn to distinguish between the flickering light of a night lamp and the shining rays of the rising sun”. So said Shah Latif, the polymath poet of Sindh urging people…
What is the One Percent Republic?
Last week, Dr Miftah Ismail initiated an important debate by terming Pakistan a “One percent Republic” – a society that works for the few and reproduces elite privilege over time.…
Challenging imperialism
Pakistan only witnessed genuine anti-imperialist movements in its early period, chiefly led by various socialist groups. In contrast, the Right, which remained a strong supporter of US imperialism in those…
Who will fix Pakistan?
The way we imagine change in Pakistan is somewhat inspired by comics, novels and movies where characters like Batman emerge in the corrupt, chaotic city of Gotham and eradicate evil…
Charter of economy
There is no doubt that Pakistan needs an immediate economic strategy to come out of the current mess, which has come about due to political mismanagement among other reasons. This…
Is sovereign default inevitable? – II
The first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, said the following on the occasion of abolition of zamindari system in his country’s largest state, UP, in 1952: “I was…
Economic colonialism
European historians, with their own sense of bias, which on occasions reaches its zenith, to convert into prejudice, (there is no such thing as honest historians, they are all different…
