A push to attract young and diverse talent and global consumers is behind some of corporate America’s willingness to speak out on politically charged issues like Georgia’s new voting law,…
Nation-building requires visionary leadership with a strong sense of purpose and tenacity to succeed; unfortunately, such a leadership has eluded Pakistan in the past. Pakistan is the sixth most populous…
It is good to see that private sector credit is picking up handsomely with the revival in economic growth and priority sectors of the economy are benefiting a lot from…
Over the course of my work, I have the opportunity to visit and work with public schools on the lowest end of the spectrum, and it always leaves me shaken.…
WATER-STARVED Karachiites, do you know who James Strachan was? Appointed chief engineer and secretary of Karachi municipality in 1873, it was his genius that made Karachi into one of the…
Fiscally, Pakistan is a highly undisciplined country. The main reason is scattered taxation by multiple agencies working under federal, provincial and local governments without necessary coordination and data sharing. As…
For several months now, the ruling Conservative Party in the UK has been in the news for fostering Islamophobia. Different members of the party have publicly expressed their hatred or…
Politics is the 'death knell' of good management. Good corporate management is about following defined procedures in all realms - finance, accounting, human resource, marketing, etc. Politics is about 'populism'…
The second Benazir government (Oct 1993-Nov 1996) started off with considerable poise and maturity. The privatisation programme was to continue apace, despite numerous misgivings developed in the context of a…
The two alternating governments of Pakistan’s young leaders came to an end with the imposition of an emergency, on October 12, 1999. A long period of economic stability sans political…
