When PTI needs friends …
OF all the hare-brained schemes to muzzle criticism of those at the helm, the Peca amendment ordinance promulgated by the president must take pride of place on the podium of…
Healthcare, social security systems needed
With all its tragedies, unprecedented complexities and uncertainties, the coronavirus pandemic should focus minds on the inadequacies in our healthcare and social security systems that need rectification at the earliest.…
Pandemic stirs Wall Street’s social conscience
Worker welfare is having a moment on Wall Street. The need to restart production lines and reopen offices idled by the coronavirus pandemic mean issues such as sick pay and…
Country actually needs ‘business’ envoys
Prime Minister Imran Khan in his virtual address this week to Pakistan’s envoys posted in different foreign missions expressed strong dissatisfaction over their performance and asked them to shun ‘colonial’…
Financing social protection without incurring debt
Expenditure on social protection will lead to accumulation of debt if not financed through revenues, grants or donations. A part of expenditure on social protection can easily be financed through…
Pakistan needs contraception
SOME may find the title of this article provocative and others may find it amusing. But this is a very serious issue: Pakistan needs contraception and contraceptives are not available.…
Foreign Office needs reform
NO institution can perform effectively unless it is able to adapt to changes around it, leverage the opportunities offered by a globalised world and learn new skills to deal with…
Needs of refugees
On January 18, Lebanon’s human rights record was examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review Working Group. Prior to the session, the government of Lebanon submitted…
Special needs
ONE of the biggest impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic has been on the education of children. Months-long school closure resulting from concerns of virus transmission has affected their learning outside…
Country needs a new finance minister
Ishaq Dar, the incumbent finance minister, is clearly unable to give any, let alone, due attention to the portfolio of finance that he nonetheless refuses to surrender. Today the country…
