An open letter to PM Modi
That I address you as a friend is no formality. I own no foes. My business in life has been for the past many years to enlist the friendship of…
An unsustainable development model
Far be it from me to add to the reams of newsprint and hours of air time devoted to the federal budget 2022-23 presented by Finance Minister Miftah Ismail in…
Why is the PM in election mode?
“IF suicide was not forbidden (haram) I’d go into parliament with explosives and blow it up,” roared a charged Shehryar Afridi, a leading light of the governing PTI and the…
Ayub Khan’s authoritarian ‘development’ model
To the embarrassment of the nation’s intelligence, we see that Prime Minister Imran Khan, Finance Minister Asad Umar and batteries of trolls on social media greatly admire Field Marshal President…
Modi’s rivals see India election gain hitting PM on economy
More than two years after the surprise withdrawal of most of India's currency from circulation, the painful consequences stalk its architect as he seeks another term at the helm of…
A model of development
After the PML-N government came into power after the 2013 elections, China – an emerging power – cashed in on the opportunity and rang the door bell of Pakistan to…
Modi’s ‘communalised development’
Out of the over 100 people I talked to during my visit to Varanasi, 95 percent intended to vote for Modi and thought that the Bharatiya Janata Party could overwhelmingly…
As Modi tries to disown Nehru
A CURSORY glance at Wikipedia shows that Pakistan has had as close a relationship with Ukraine as India ever had, or possibly better, including vital defence ties. In fact, in…
Development first?
EVEN a cursory review of discussions in Pakistan on the subject suggests that a desperate search for a shortcut to development has been going on for decades. How to attain…
The Bangladesh model
IN 2013, the World Bank indicated that Bangladesh could become the ‘next China’. While the bank may have been focusing on the economic and demographic dividends which Bangladesh might have…
