Financial crisis, social unrest and reform
The December 22, 2008 issue of Newsweek featured an article on the downside of Chinese state reform. Entitled ‘Why China is too scared to spend’, the article drew attention to…
Education in a polycrisis
The story of Pakistan’s education is no longer about what is broken, it is about what is collapsing. It is a tale of two crises entwined: the children who never…
A manmade mental crisis
“We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in” — Desmond Tutu THERE is much talk…
A manmade mental crisis
“We need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in” — Desmond Tutu THERE is much talk…
Wrong court, real crisis
As of the end of last year, Pakistan’s courts were sitting on roughly 2.3 million unresolved cases. Nearly 83 per cent were pending in the district judiciary; the remainder was…
We have a crisis of confidence
Over the past decade, Pakistan has witnessed many multinationals rolling up their banners citing ‘unviable conditions’ – in reality, meaning unbearable uncertainty. We are witnessing a tragic threshold where flight…
A crisis of resilience
For almost two decades, we have been told the reassuring story of Pakistan’s steady decline in poverty from 64 per cent in 2001-02 to almost 22 per cent in 2018-19.…
Crisis-prone France sinks deeper into debt quagmire
The collapse of France’s latest government leaves the euro zone’s second-biggest economy lurching deeper into a morass of feeble growth, high borrowing costs and a debt burden becoming one of…
Our antibiotic crisis
Antibiotics are among humanity's most remarkable discoveries, emerging unexpectedly over the past century. The credit for this groundbreaking development goes to the Scottish physician and microbiologist, Alexander Fleming, who was…
Rewriting the social contract
In Pakistan’s rural heartlands, a silent revolution is underway. For more than a century, the Indus Basin canal network, designed under British colonial rule, dictated the rhythm of agriculture. The…
