Education challenge
The refusal of Laado to accompany her mother to the paddy fields during the harvesting season because of homework is an encouraging sign in a society where education for girls…
Learning to live with inflation
We have not been able to get the better of inflation. It is generalised and above comfort level. This is a huge challenge, unless we can learn to live with…
The higher command
We need services’ integration, and we need it now. We also need to remove some anomalies that tend to slur the army’s image unnecessary. Current military minds than mine can…
Regulating the NGO sector
Economic development strategies in the last 50 years have been relatively successful in alleviating poverty and raising the living standards in developing countries. The Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction…
Only visits won’t do
The chief of army staff (COAS) made brief stopovers at Wana, Miramshan in south and north Waziristan soon after taking charge – a clear message to all that he attaches…
The Congress rout and the BJP gain
The main message from the Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi assembly elections is clear. The Congress stands routed and faces further decline. The Bharatiya Janata Party has made impressive…
New directions in energy sector
More than six months have passed after the installation of the new government of PML (N). Although, a lot should not be expected in this short period, it is long…
Behavioural economics in developing countries
The fairness principle in economic management has never been applied in managing economics and when this is based on analysis that is based on urgency; the chances of its success…
The many pitfalls of economic democracy
Pakistan's economic systems are in a mess and the reason is not far to see. The instability and the uncertainty in the economic system is such that the players do…
Russia’s South Stream gas line viable but legally risky
Russia's South Stream pipeline project for transporting gas to southern Europe is economically viable, despite its price tag of $45 billion, but legal issues with Brussels risk derailing the entire…
