Trade with India: Stand-alone or linked to an irritant!
The question is why the PML-N government did not extend the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) status to India after hectic commerce diplomacy, in which the Chief Minister Punjab and the…
Policing urban violence
While political, ethnic, religious and socio-economic tensions contribute to conflicts, escalating urban violence is largely a product of poor governance, inappropriate security policies and neglected police reforms. This is the…
Putin’s Presidency-III: Obama sweating blood?
In 1918, US President Woodrow Wilson said that for one year he had been "sweating blood" under the Russian question. According to Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace, he…
Hanging in the balance
Pakistan’s overall balance of payment position has deteriorated sharply in the first half (July-December) of the current fiscal year (2013-14) as compared with the corresponding period of the last year.…
Transparent privatisation
Public-sector enterprises (PSEs) are generally considered inefficient all around the world, primarily because they serve as employment bureaus for the political leaderships that control them. The privatisation of these PSEs…
Uncertainties galore
Recently, President Obama talked about leaving "soft footprints" on the pages of history. Does this imply that the US will no more be leaving "hard footprints" like the ones left…
Trade with India: why oppose it?
Narendra Modi, known for his unrepentant virulent anti-Pakistan stance, has a clear lead in opinion polls, and is widely expected to be India's next Prime Minister. His latest tirade against…
Myanmar’s log export ban to hurt businessmen but help forests
Myanmar will ban the export of raw timber logs from April 1, choking off profits in a sector that provided critical funding to the country's former military rulers for decades,…
Rebuilding Pakistan’s economy
After eight months of the present Government, and at the time when the second review of the IMF is completed, it is important to look back on what we have…
Who rules Pakistan?
A Month or so ago, political economist Akbar Zaidi published a piece in Economic and Political Weekly calling for a revision in our academic understanding of state and society in…
