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Discouraging FDI

Discouraging FDI

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is vital for the health of any economy. For Pakistan's developing economy, considered by foreign investors as a high risk one, FDI is critical due to…

The unsung heroines

They are the easiest of targets, little groups of women, clutching medical boxes and knocking on doors. From modest entryways to hovels to elaborate doors of mansions, from huts in…

Beyond Reform?

Beyond reform?

Since the start of World Bank funded Tax Administration Reforms Programme (TARP), FBR has been making tall claims about its automation efforts. All the chairmen of FBR, who headed the…

A Colonial View Of Rape

A colonial view of rape

There was another rape in Delhi this week after which the 23-year-old victim, a paramedic apprentice from Uttar Pradesh, was mutilated with an iron rod. Her condition is described as…

The Doha Process

The Doha process

The international print media succumbs at times to the temptation of sensationalising non-events. This was in evidence again last week when reports surfaced that the reclusive supreme leader of the…

The Doha Process

The Doha process

The international print media succumbs at times to the temptation of sensationalising non-events. This was in evidence again last week when reports surfaced that the reclusive supreme leader of the…

One System, Not Four

One system, not four

FOR the past several months the media has been carrying reports about an emerging consensus between the major political parties and the federal and the provincial governments to carry out…

The Women From Kohistan

The women from Kohistan

Four women clapping and two men dancing appeared in a grainy cellphone video from a remote village said to be in Kohistan. The ill-fated gathering was said to have occurred…