The accountant and political dimensions of FY17 budget
You have got to give it to the Accountant. He has enormous energy: Frankfurt to Islamabad to Dubai to the Parliament, adding numbers all the time. He even found time…
Social dimensions and IMF deals
Political economists believe that economic growth is important, but it alone cannot help reduce poverty and inequality, marring prosperity, unless the right choices and unbiased selection of priorities are made…
Crisis of political imagination
It keeps us on our toes to defend the fortress of morality and keep the power of a shrewd politician far away from us. It keeps us engaged in a…
China-Pakistan relations: new dimensions
On the occasion of the 71st anniversary of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and China both the nations deserve congratulations. These two brotherly countries have stood by each other at all…
Pakistan’s angry political culture
THE political culture of a country always evolves. But not necessarily in a positive direction. As elsewhere in the world, politics in Pakistan has long had unseemly dimensions. Political leaders…
The dimensions of hatred
Hatred has been a feature of human history. We have seen it again and again, illogical in its dimensions, difficult to understand, hard to live with. In India, as Prime…
Panama leaks: Questions have two distinct dimensions
I had written about a graceful window of opportunity that was available to the Chief Executive of Pakistan for clearing his family position and putting the matter behind to getting…
Political economy in Pakistan
Pakistan's political system is flawed and as a result all the resultant actions and implementations are erroneous. Where is reason in the system, where is the thought process. Pakistan will…
Political myths
In Pakistan, the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a movement and its real political intent become more than evident if we observe the course of our chequered political…
Conrad, empire and exile
Joseph Conrad was an exceptionally talented writer who emerged as a novelist and storyteller in the late 19th century. Born in Poland and fluent in French by the age of…
