Online Academics and COVID-19
The menace of COVID – 19 is threatening not only the lives and economic well being of people but placing the academic careers of the generation currently enrolled in educational…
The Ehsaas strategy
The Ehsaas Strategy has been released today (pass.gov.pk/) to solicit public input, prior to its finalization. The strategy elaborates on the prime minister’s vision of a welfare state. This is…
Ensuring performance
This is the second of two columns on the subject of improving government performance. In the first column (‘Improving performance’, April 28), I discussed why we must improve government performance…
Census controversies
A census is a quiet affair for most people in politically stable and institutionally strong countries, where the national head count runs relatively smooth and is reliably decennial. But in…
If you think it’s easy, you’re doing it wrong
Many years ago, after being asked one too many a question, I sat down at my computer and hammered out what have henceforth been referred to as the ‘BNR Rules’.…
How CPEC can help the SDGs
This newspaper’s initiative to help mainstream Sustainable Development Goals through a series of articles focusing on the SDGs has brought forth the complexity and policy choices that need to be…
Right to water
The taxonomy of water is a hotly debated subject in international policy circles; it has been classified as an economic good, a commodity, a subject of environmental protection, and even…
The roadmap to agri prosperity
The country is in the hands of people who believe that they can develop the sector because of their industrial ability. Since 1948 we have been bleeding the economy through…
More growth, more taxes
Every year before the announcement of annual federal budget-which has become an official ritual-plethora of tax proposals are received by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) from trade and professional…
Culpability for crises
The debilitating economic crises facing Pakistan and the deplorable state of public services are mostly a result of mismanagement, inaction and the blatantly wrong policies that have been pursued by…
