Amnesty scheme: why it should be availed?
This writer has written numerous articles in the last two years on the matter of undisclosed foreign assets of Pakistani citizens. Now an Act to this effect has been passed…
Survive without empathy?
As anyone who keeps a household budget can attest, the unexpected happens all the time. A refrigerator evaporator fan motor fails. Some part on your car you never realized existed…
Where’s the change?
States that don’t spend on their people don’t progress. The real development lies in uplifting the people. Metro and mega projects do not make a nation great. We shall eliminate…
Revolution of values
This month marks the 90th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr the iconic American civil rights and human rights leader who forced America to live up to its rhetorical ideals…
How to buy happiness
Corporatists castigated two lawmakers in recent weeks for daring to offer economic Xanax prescriptions to cure rampant American economic anxiety. “Stupid”, is what they branded new Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as…
Hope in healthcare
The health sector in Pakistan is facing a systematic collapse owing to the lack of state-of-the-art technology, adequate manpower and funding. The mere survival of Pakistan’s healthcare system itself holds…
Governance or window dressing?
All of us expect our governments at each level – federal, provincial, and district – to perform better and faster. Instead, they end up doing something has the least effect…
The needy and the greedy
The glaring apathy of the developed world towards cases of well-known corruption taking refuge in their countries to secure ill-gotten gains is scandalous. Attending seminars and conferences focused on countering…
Blame the provinces, get waivers
Although we were unable to meet two key performance benchmarks of the programme, the IMF took a lenient view of these failings and granted waivers – accumulating to 12, the…
No insurance, no ridesharing, cities tell UberX, Lyft and others
Using mobile apps to connect passengers with drivers, ridesharing services like UberX and Lyft say they are bringing new zip to transportation. But a number of cities say they don't…
