From Kashgar to Gwadar
Nawaz Sharif's five-day official visit to China from July 3-8 – his first trip abroad after taking office as prime minister – which followed less than two months after that…
Nawaz Sharif's five-day official visit to China from July 3-8 – his first trip abroad after taking office as prime minister – which followed less than two months after that…
Nawaz Sharif's five-day official visit to China from July 3-8 – his first trip abroad after taking office as prime minister – which followed less than two months after that…
The opening of a Taliban office in Doha last month kindled hopes of a negotiated end to the fighting in Afghanistan after decades of foreign invasions and civil war, which…
Barack Obama will land to not much fanfare from the South African public for his first trip to the country as US president. He comes at a time when South…
I learnt there is just one flight per week from Lahore to Peshawar and it returns three days later. This prompted an investigation of how Peshawar is connected to the…
Management of an economy is the most arduous assignment for the governments owing to the socio-economic complexities and the linkages of the economy with the outside world. Monetary and fiscal…
As one may recall, while the budget for the Financial Year 2011-12 was being presented in the National Assembly, the opposition members from the PML-N had presented the finance minister…
There were quite a few surprises in the 2013 elections, with a number of bigwigs falling from grace. Post-election, about one-third of the representatives in the assemblies are new –…
The Federal Budget presented by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar is a week old now, and has evoked mixed reactions, mostly critical and highly suspicious of government's ability to meet the…
Some years ago I came across an article that made an interesting observation about the pre-eminence of Islamic civilisations and how it is rooted in their ability to discover new…