Although elections are right around the corner on February 8, leaving little time for discussion on manifestos, the three major political parties – PPP (Pakistan People’s Party), PML-N (Pakistan Muslim…
Pakistan’s economy has always remained in a state of confusion. Except for the first decade or so when we went for import substitution our attempts to set our economy on…
The state and its propaganda apparatus have been a great hindrance in the development of an objective approach or objective approaches to Iqbal. Yet, one can ask whether Iqbal didn’t…
After reigning supreme for over seven decades, exercising uncontested political and financial dominance worldwide, the World Bank Group (WB) and IMF have now a competitor known as Asian Infrastructure Investment…
The constitution is a political document which contains the political theory about the philosophy and structure of the Pakistani state and society. So, by applying the political theory incorporated in…
PPP is having a bad time in the aftermath of the bye elections which it lost comprehensively to the Nawaz League. This was followed by a series of defections from…
Across the length and breadth of Pakistan, amongst journalists, politicians, generals and even judges, there is a poverty of philosophy that is crippling the development of a stable state and…
PAKISTAN is currently muddling through a storm of political instability, economic downturn and resurgent terrorism. Large sections of Indian media and pundits have seized the opportunity to demonise Pakistan as…
WITH the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan back in the killing business with renewed ferocity, it is time we took a look at its ideological moorings. In a nutshell, like the communist parties…
THERE are two broader perspectives, two distinct worldviews — Weltanschauungs if you will — which inform one’s attitude towards other human beings. That perspective may, in turn, also determine the…
