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Through creative destruction: Part – II

Previously I discussed why Pakistan needs to break the IMF cycle of bailout programmes through debt restructuring and transformational reforms. I described this process as ‘creative destruction’: how we need…

On the right side

Member of Doctors for the Environment Australia Dr Graeme McLeay’s opinion – that climate protesters are heroes, and on the right side of history – stirred up debate about disruptive…

Senate’s golden jubilee

This year, the month of March has unique significance in our democratic, parliamentary and constitutional journey as the Senate celebrates its golden jubilee. This occasion affords us with an opportunity…

Resolving the debt question

With considerable delay and visible reluctance (“unwillingly” in the words of the prime minister), Pakistan has taken most of the steps that could bring it closer to successfully completing a…

Community resilience

Extremism is the deadliest emerging threat to global security, rights, peace, well-being, and sustainability. The rise in extremism in various regions of the world is caused by inequalities and an…

Targeting subsidies

While headlines are dominated by the politics of power, a significant proportion of the country’s population is struggling to put food on the table. And, as an economic catastrophe unfolds,…

Democratisation of energy

“Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all,” Gandhi said this, and it supports the democratic system of government that we are all familiar with. The…

What endangers a language?

Students of the Institute of Management Sciences, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) organized a two-day literary and academic event called Peshawar Literary Festival on February 4 and 5, soon after the January…