The new governance
Are earnest, well-meaning people no shortage of this breed here – still missing the trick? When this government wants to do something it goes ahead and does it. Nearly five…
The Kerry visit
The oft-postponed visit by Secretary John Kerry had been eagerly awaited in Islamabad. According to the pre-arrival briefing provided by State Department officials to the press team which was accompanying…
Tehran’s change of guard
Post-revolutionary Iran’s 11th presidential election, scheduled for June 14, will be watched around the world for a variety of reasons. Among these is the fact that Iran is one of…
European markets shudder at prospect of Berlusconi return
Europe is holding its breath at the prospect of a return to power of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Although he insists that he has no interest in being…
Real profit
Having concluded in earlier articles that money is an illusion and that inflation is a silent cancer for wealth, this particular part in the series on profit is in a…
Transatlantic trade
For some in Brussels, plans to create a vast Europe-America free-trade area which will generate jobs, more transatlantic investment flows and seal an alliance which under President Barack Obama has…
Before disaster strikes
Another high-profile, low-output meeting on Afghanistan has been held. On February 3-4 Prime Minister David Cameron met the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan at Chequers, his country residence, for trilateral…
The poor abandoned?
WHILE the fight against terrorists continues to cause nightmares Pakistan has run into another menace — the threat of an economic implosion. And the hardest hit by this affliction too…
