The Viksit Bharat era of India
Pakistan-India ‘talks’ have been stalled for years, but this doesn’t mean that the two countries don’t talk. In 2016, during a security incident at the Pathankot Airbase in India in…
Palestinian statehood key to Arab plans for post-war Gaza
As Israel keeps up its campaign against Hamas, Arab leaders are mapping out ways to support post-war Gaza, placing one major condition on their involvement: a pathway to Palestinian statehood.…
The power paradox
Lower electricity prices can stimulate industrial activity, which can catalyse economic growth. There is no dispute regarding this. However, how electricity prices can be reduced is a multi-faceted riddle that…
Pakistan’s plastic paradox
“Only we humans make waste that nature can't digest,” says American oceanographer Charles Moore, who is famous for bringing the world’s attention to the Great Garbage Patch – a vast…
Paradigm behind an ideal tax-to-GDP ratio
One point of commonality in all twenty-three International Monetary Fund (IMF) programmes secured by Pakistan to date is an emphasis on raising tax revenue with more recent programmes seeking not…
Wildlife in Karachi
Not many people know that in the early days of Pakistan when the lion roared in the Karachi Zoo the roar could be heard as far away in what was…
Karachi by the sea
Karachi is home to two of the busiest ports of Pakistan, the Karachi Port and Port Qasim, it is also the largest city of Pakistan with a population of roughly…
Gulf oil giants Saudi Aramco, Adnoc set sights on lithium
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates’ national oil companies plan to extract lithium from brine in their oilfields, in line with efforts to diversify their economies and profit from…
Parachuted manifestos
The election manifestos of all major parties have now been released. I went through them with an eye on education priorities. If education is an election issue for you that…
India’s state of paranoia
India’s political leadership has always remained cognizant of the significance of the majority Hindu vote. This often shapes the electoral process in India and political forces evolve their respective manifestos…
