As the US reasserts itself
Afghanistan’s new power tandem has gone ahead with what Karzai would not accept, a status of forces agreement with the US, thus clearing the way to America’s military role after…
Overhaul the system
The politico-social and economic structures fostered by our political, agricultural, industrial and military-bureaucratic elite are incapable of conceiving and devising policies and revitalising decaying institutional structures for stimulating economic growth.…
Peace and prosperity through security and stability
The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation has become an influential organisation and an important factor in the emergence of a new polycentric world order. The organisation has worked to bring about tangible…
Geopolitical realities
Last Monday, in one of the last meetings of its soon-to-conclude session, the UN General Assembly decided that intergovernmental negotiations (IGN) on the issue of Security Council reform, which have…
Consensus for change?
Though the dharnas started out with less loftier objectives, slowly the rhetoric of the leaders has moved to grander visions of what they would like to achieve. Apart from specifics…
Can Pakistan become a welfare state?
The debate that is going on in Islamabad at the moment is about the viability of the political state of Pakistan. That political economics plays a big part can be…
China fishes for growth with world’s largest aquarium
A giant 63-metre blue whale shark statue towers over the world's largest aquarium, on a Chinese island being promoted as a testing ground for reforms aimed at encouraging domestic consumption…
MPS: the inevitable happened
As expected, there is no change in the policy rate. All 25 research houses contacted by BR Research were anticipating a status quo. Surprisingly, however, the State Bank of Pakistan''s…
Comparing budgets
The national and provincial budgeting cycle has come to an end, though Pakistani governments often present mini-budgets through tax and rate hikes later on. They also rarely stick closely to…
Shadowed by Bush, Obama seeks Africa legacy makeover
When President Barack Obama made his first extended trip to Africa last year as the world's most powerful leader, he tried to assuage a continent largely disappointed in its famous…
