Report on MPI demands action
One initiative that the PML-N regime can fairly claim as an historic step forward is the introduction of a more refined poverty measuring yardstick - the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)…
New Chief Justice, old challenges
In any society, administration and dispensation of justice should be the top most priority. A society without a sound, reliable and speedy judicial system, which does not ensure effective dispensation…
Political battling vs national interests
This trend is an about-turn, though not by the US, and proves how in the past the US forced European countries to pursue fundamentally wrong strategies. While it proves yet…
The ‘demise’ of regulatory bodies – II
The government has placed Pakistan's prime autonomous regulators under the dictate of the ministries, as a line function authority, overriding opposition from the governments of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. When…
The corridor
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor has kicked off operations from the most strategic point of its alignment - the port of Gwadar. Pakistan's prime minister and army chief welcomed on Sunday…
PPP revival – a vain hope
Pakistan People's Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is in Lahore these days, ostensibly, to revive the party in the largest population province, Punjab, where it faced almost complete rout in…
Houbara bustard hunters are back
It has become an annual ritual for the concerned citizens to raise protest voices against liberal issuance of permits to Arab princes, sheikhs and wealthy businessmen for hunting the houbara…
Modi’s ‘isolate Pakistan’ mission
The way he is going India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a lifelong activist of the Hindu extremist organisation, RSS, reminds one of what the late Indian journalist, Praful Bidwai, had…
Intensity of poverty
Planning Commission of Pakistan, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) jointly released earlier this week, a well-prepared report on the intensity of poverty…
21st century’s ‘defining’ partnership?
On June 8, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi was warmly applauded while addressing the US Congress; this was in sharp contrast to the almost decade-long ban imposed on his entry…
