The expendables
When there is excess labour, compared to capital, the price (or wage) that labour can command, in a capitalist market-based system, will be low. There is no guarantee that the…
What remains sacred?
Spurning advice not to return to Pakistan and face a myriad number of legal problems, Musharraf successfully managed, by default, to put the army as a whole into the dock.…
As workforce shrinks, Korea struggles to embrace immigration
For 61-year old construction worker Chae Chang-geun, an ethnic Korean from China, Seoul is a place to make money but not a place to call home. Chae is one of…
Impact Factors and Citation Indexes
The impact factor (IF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to recent articles published in the journal. It is frequently used as a…
On partisan grounds
RECENT academic research by Zahid Hasnain, Ali Cheema, and others, on local development spending in Pale istan shows that outlays made by politicians are hardly ever needsbased and almost always…
The business start-up
The region's most dynamic yet neglected land, Pakistan, has started to pave its way to the world economy by rendering its first major and highly successful business delegation on the…
Zero option Kabul
The war in Afghanistan isn’t ending, it’s just changing gears, and much like the Chinese curse, 2014 is shaping up to be a very interesting year. On the one hand,…
Can healthcare in KP measure up?
The deterioration in the government-run healthcare system all over the country is now considered a given fact, but in some regions it is more pronounced. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province…
Risk of American failure
The idea of bringing the government of the United States of America to its knees has a certain appeal in various parts of the world. Broadly speaking, though, the reasons…
The making of an international star
The Taliban may have the Pakistani state at their mercy at least that’s what it looks like on bad days – but one thing they had sought to control, or…
