Doha move: First step to legitimize terrorism
September 20, 2011 US President Bush policy statement to defeat, stop, eliminate and destroy terrorism through power and giving it the name of War against Terror now seems failed by…
Finance Bill 2013: Meaningful suggestions
Senate Standing Committee on Finance sent a number of meaningful, though unbinding, recommendations to the National Assembly on 21st June, 2013. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar ignored all of them while…
Japanese divided over ‘Abenomics’ despite global acclaim
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe returned from the G8 meeting in Northern Ireland a happy man, saying the leaders of the world's biggest economies had endorsed his own economic programme.…
A bad start
It may seem too early a verdict on the PML-N government which is only a couple of weeks old, but if the budget is anything to go by, the signs…
Budget and economic management
Management of an economy is the most arduous assignment for the governments owing to the socio-economic complexities and the linkages of the economy with the outside world. Monetary and fiscal…
The undeserving rich
The requirement in modern-day life of a country is to see that the opportunities are provided to all and sundry as equitably as possible. That is easier said than done.…
Budget 2013-14: More disappointments!
Why is Dar's budget 2013-14 such a massive disappointment for the general public? If one compares the PML (N) manifesto (whose release was reportedly delayed as the party chief Nawaz…
Invigorating the civil service
The buzz word these days is governance. Some political analysts have argued that governance (or for that matter bad governance) was the main determinant of the 2013 election results. Where…
Trade and industry
There were quite a few surprises in the 2013 elections, with a number of bigwigs falling from grace. Post-election, about one-third of the representatives in the assemblies are new –…
Time to go to the IMF
Whenever a country faces a serious balance of payment crisis, it goes to the IMF to seek balance of payments support. While providing resources, the IMF asks the government to…
