The IMF programme
The Executive Board of the IMF has approved a 36-month programme under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for US$ 6.68 billion on September 4, 2013. After the board approval, the…
Thank you Mr President
9th September 2008 was a date in Pakistan's political history when a political genius was elected as President of the country. He with his policy of "Democracy is the best…
The Achakzai recipe
The struggle for democracy has been going on since the creation of Pakistan but gets derailed for one reason or the other – and then we are back to square…
Tapping energy resources
According to the ‘Global Economic Prospects’ report, South Asian regional growth declined from 7.4 percent in 2011 to an estimated 5.4 percent in 2012, mainly due to a sharp slowdown…
A narrow agenda
IT appears the prime minister`s revised offer of talks to the militants in his first address to the nation accentuated the existing differences among the latter on how to respond.…
Performance so far
When the PML-N emerged victorious in the May 2013 elections, there was a general sense that it would be able to ensure happier times for Pakistanis. Yet in the run-up…
Angry impotence
First YouTube was banned. Now it’s late night telephone packages. What is next? Music, for it gives the impressionable all kinds of crazy ideas about love and idealism? Poetry, which…
Syria, and then…
The US is again on the verge of launching yet another act of military aggression against an Arab and Muslim country. Military aggression is the worst international crime possible. The…
The busman’s court in Taliban-hit Pakistan
Sweat pours down Judge Fazal Wadood's back as he sits perched behind a desk inside a custom-built green bus that is the latest weapon in the battle against Taliban influence…
‘Qarz burhao, mulk bigarho
In 1997 the slogan of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) was 'Qarz Utaro, Mulk Sanwaro' [retire debt, adorn country], which is reversed in 2013 as all efforts are underway to increase…
