The legacy of the PPP government
The Pakistan People’s Party got a monumental mansion built in Lahore for its supreme leader towards the close of its tenure (2008-2013), which, if doesn’t outdo, by all accounts matches…
Mixed signals from the PPP government
Pakistan is one of the few countries in the world where we express our solidarity with an oppressed people by taking a day off. That is what happens every year…
Can PPP deliver in Karachi?
IT will be for the Election Commission and/or the courts to rule on the legitimacy of the election to the office of the mayor of Karachi this week, but what…
PPP’s hour of reckoning
OFTEN described as an accidental leader, Asif Ali Zardari is undoubtedly one of the shrewdest political figures in the country. Past master in the art of political wheeling and dealing,…
How to right-size the government
The latest buzzword these days is ‘rightsizing’ the government. This usually points to calls for reforms aiming to reduce government expenses and the budget deficit. But rightsizing or reforms is…
Domestic and foreign savings: government must cease reliance
National savings rate is an important indicator of an economy’s financial health, and its identity with investment determines how much a country needs to borrow domestically (deficit financing, a highly…
Local government’s return
THE new cycle of local government elections in Pakistan started with a bang. Though delayed by more than a year, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the first province to undergo the first…
PPP’s solo flight
On the occasion of the 42nd death anniversary of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on April 4, 2021, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari carried on the war of words…
Sindh: challenges ahead for the PPP
The seed that Zulfikar Ali Bhutto planted in Lahore at the residence of late Dr Mubashir Hasan in the late sixties in the form of the Pakistan People’s Party has…
PPP’s Young Turks
A CLOSE friend of a PPP prime minister during the 2008-2013 term says he once told the latter that the press was inundated with critical stories about him and his…
