‘Broadly on track’?
The IMF had completed together the 'politically motivated' fourth and fifth reviews of the ongoing IMF programme in Dubai on November 8, 2014. After the conclusion of the meeting with…
Doubts in Nigeria over president’s eligibility for re-election
Nigeria's ruling party has given President Goodluck Jonathan a free run for a second term of office at next year's elections but he faces a potential sticking point: is he…
Legal and moral abyss
Mumtaz Qadri, more than being defended by former chief justice of the Lahore High Court, Khawaja Mohammad Sharif, former LHC judge Mian Nazir Akhtar, and hundreds of other lawyers, is…
A dangerous lack of trust
More than 2000 of the world’s top leaders in business, government, international organisations and the academia assembled at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting on January 21-24 to debate the…
Politics of appeasement
There is a growing perception that the Model Town tragedy in June 2014, the subsequent long march and sit-ins in Islamabad, the firing and shelling of tear gas on sit-ins…
Sit-ins and economy
Thousands of people have participated in dharna (sit-ins) every day for the last two months at the D-Chowk in Islamabad. The sit-ins organised by two political parties ie Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf…
Issues in food inflation
Pakistan is going through an economic impasse. The macro figures are not tallying with the requirements of the nation. Policy elites sitting in various forums are unable to diagnose what…
Soul of education
The education system in Pakistan is deeply flawed. It produces graduates who are either incapable of representing our socio-cultural ideals or incompetent to do anything worthwhile in the field of…
Unaccountable governance
One can only pity the ministers who are struggling to defend an increasingly dysfunctional government plagued by a culture of complacency and with no signs of serious accountability for ineptitude.…
Barbarism and us
At the height of the First World War the German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg exclaimed that humanity would soon be confronted with a stark choice — it could save itself by…
