Power tariff – a flawed business model
Power tariffs have recently been in the limelight – not for any other issue but for unaffordability of the same. The steep rise during the last two years is of…
Anatomisation of power tariff
Power Sector as a whole and specifically the electricity tariff is under discussion every day. All and sundry are challenging the validity and veracity of DISCO billing as being patently…
The rise of an intolerant society
How did we become so brutally intolerant? What led us to this despicable state? Over the last couple of months, Pakistan has reported violence against Christians, desecration of a Hindu…
On the watch
We need to keep looking over our shoulders at events across our border. Across our western border, things are looking grimmer and grimmer for women, for whom secondary education has…
Towards a consensus finally?
It was no doubt a special Corps Commanders Conference (CCC) – being held soon after the horrifying and unprecedented arson and vandalism acts across Pakistan's major cities that not only…
Privatize SOEs, please
Nobody can deny the economic and financial turmoil Pakistan currently finds itself in. Yet, the country’s decision-makers are shy of taking hard decisions to stabilize the troubled economy. One policy…
The utopia of elections
Pakistan is facing a three-pronged attack of political instability, economic meltdown and renewed terror insurgency in an election year. This is proving to be a lethal cocktail. All three streams…
What is the cost of a protest?
Never has the constitutional right of assembly ever been put to the test till now. This has now changed. While the federal government wants to curb this right in the…
A highway runs through it
There is an ancient view of the world according to which the Earth was a flat disk. That disk had to be supported by something. So, it was imagined that…
Betraying political creators
Imran Khan was pampered, supported, sponsored, idealized, and brought into the shining political limelight from deep political obscurity. However, once in power, he played havoc with the country’s economy, politics,…
