Defending deficits
Now don’t get me wrong. It’s not my job to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going, if you’ll excuse the metaphor given the circumstances obtaining…
Trains to the rescue
Can trains succeed where commissioners and consumers failed – in coping with the hike in food prices? A vigilant and honest town administration can control daily food prices through efficient…
In search of education
A nation without education is little more than a gathering of apes and monkeys. Unless we start investing massively in education, science, technology and innovation, as was done by Singapore,…
Mexico overtakes Japan as No 2 car exporter to US
Mexico's booming auto industry has reached a major milestone, claiming to have overtaken Japan as the second biggest car exporter to the United States in the past three months. The…
Marginal and fragile areas: Will democracy work?
Is democracy the panacea of all the ills that are facing this nation? The answer as any one will tell you are that one shoe size does not fit anyone…
Economics of poverty in Thar
The tragedy of Thar is that no one in the federal or the provincial government really understands what can or could have been done in the desert areas of Pakistan…
Climate change is serious
Because nature doesn’t always behave the same in a lab, test tube or computer programme as it does in the real world, scientists and engineers have come up with ideas…
Tax clarity helps, but hurdles remain for Canada LNG exports
A new tax regime proposed for British Columbia's budding liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry has nudged plans for export terminals on Canada's Pacific Coast closer to reality, but it likely…
As we go on living closed lives
In the middle of the much coveted process of dialogue between the Pakistani government and the outlawed TTP – the start of which brought insurmountable joy in the flanks of…
Privatise or provincialise?
Wapda was unbundled in the 2000s to form generation companies (Gencos), distribution companies (Discos) and the NTDC (National Transmission Dispatch Company). Now, as the last step in the unbundling process,…
