The small island of Jersey draws thousands of tourists to its wide, sandy beaches, sun-drenched landscapes and curious mixture of "very British" and French savoir vivre just 20 kilometres off…
Thywill Tamakhe waited in frustration at a military hospital in Accra for a bed to become available for her father, as Ghana's public sector doctors' strike over pay entered a…
Pakistan is ruled and controlled by predatory elites in whose hands power and wealth are concentrated. The ruling elites - comprising indomitable military-civil-judicial complex, unscrupulous politicians, mighty religious party leaders,…
Alongsides is the first part of a three-part series by an economist who has reflected on his more than half a century involvement with the country's economy. Pakistan has had…
Do you know who the following three personages were: Hafeez Jalandhari, Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Ashfaq Ahmed? "Of course", you're most likely to say, "Hafeez is the man who gave…
Or will it continue to dampen and even extinguish our aspirations to look forward with some optimism to positive results of the projected elections if they eventually take place? ZARDARI'S…
Taxes play a vital role for establishing an egalitarian society, the true fruit of social democracy. Under a representative and responsible government, citizens are taxed according to their ability (at…
Over the past five years, extremely bad governance wrought with corruption and compromise in the name of continuity of democracy has brought the country to a disastrous point. This has…
Two important documents, namely, Fiscal Policy Statement and Debt Policy Statement for 2012-13, released on 4th February 2013 by the Debt Policy Co-ordination Office of Ministry of Finance, while expressing…
Ever since records began, rape has accompanied warfare the world over - often regarded simply as an unfortunate by-product of conflict. Even the United Nations only classified it as a…
