Raising Rs six trillion!
The governments - federal and provincial - are all lax in taxing the rich and mighty. On the contrary they extend them extraordinary tax-free perks and perquisites while the sufferers…
Legacy of Benazir Bhutto
27 December 2013 marks the sixth death anniversary of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, the visionary leader, who resisted with courage the agenda of pushing Pakistan to a theocratic State incapable of…
Time for introspection
The history of Pakistan shows that Pakistanis lost the habit of introspecting that makes one regret his failures, jolts his conscience, and triggers a desire to make up for his…
Benazir’s reconciliation policy
The history of mankind is flooded with horrible and dreadful incidents of which certain incidents that were the manifest of man's gallantry inundated the pages of history with blood of…
Changing the mindset
A mindset is a set of assumptions that everyone develops throughout their lives and become so established that people or groups continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours, choices, or…
The violence of Mandela
In the hour after hour of coverage given by the BBC and other mainstream news channels to the late Nelson Mandela, we have seen a certain image unrolled before us.…
Tell us the whole truth
In Islamabad the other day, many political leaders belonging to the PML-N and the PTI and their sidekicks like the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), journalists and commentators soaked in Islam and Pakistani…
Economic effects of intangibles
Economics especially development economics is in limbo for sometime. The excitement of the dismal science is not there anymore. Quantification of variables of development (growth-market development-employment, etc) are mere indicators…
Punjabi intelligentsia revisited
A few weeks back a note to the Punjabi intelligentsia was published in this space. The response it received was overwhelming and I continue to get a message or two…
The human capital debacle
The Population Association of Pakistan, in collaboration with the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), organised a two-day conference with the theme, ‘Population: New Realities and Challenges for Human…
