Bangkok’s shopping malls – an overdose on retail therapy?
With some of Bangkok's luxury malls sitting largely empty but yet more being built, could the city's shopping meccas be doing more harm than good? Bangkok (dpa) - Bangkok's newest…
Solution: import substitution
Pakistan is facing the worst-ever economic crisis in its history. Fiscal and current accounts do not balance; and there is no sign that they will in the near future. As…
Curtailed Hajj compounds Saudi economic woes
Vacant religious sites. Abandoned pilgrim tents. Lifeless hotels. A stunning emptiness — and fears of economic ruin — haunt the usually bustling city of Makkah after Saudi authorities curtailed the…
Pakistan’s crisis economy?
Prime Minister Imran Khan may keep a bold face in the midst of adversity, but Pakistan’s sliding economy must be enough to give sleepless nights to any decision-maker. With a…
Our house is on fire
In the summer of 1996 in the Harvard Institute of Development, a professor was recounting the great material achievements of the capitalist system before the international participants in the class.…
Orwell’s vengeance
IMAGINE the challenges we will face a couple of decades from now. Our population will have increased exponentially to approximately 250 million. A majority of these teeming millions will still…
The bubble of life
A small number of us live within protected bubbles that keep us apart from the world outside. Those inside the bubble have access to luxuries of all kinds, including education…
The path to progress
As the census results pour in, we are presented with the stark reality that almost 64 percent of our population is rural with the balance residing in urban areas. While…
Karachi’s daily battles
The recent murder of innocent members of the Ismaili community in Karachi was an act directed by the militants not just against a peaceful community settled in the city forever,…
Lahore’s tryst with modernity
Despite its growth as an urban metropolis of nearly 10 million, Lahore continues to exhibit some of the same characteristics found in the more provincial towns of Punjab — ethnically…
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