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From Kashgar To Gwadar

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…

From Kashgar To Gwadar

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…

The Roots Of Afghan Turmoil

The roots of Afghan turmoil

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…

Anchoring KP Province

Anchoring KP province

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…

Budget And Economic Management

Budget and economic management

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…

More Of The Same?

More of the same?

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…

Trade And Industry

Trade and industry

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 –…

Promises Galore

Promises galore

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…

Knowledge Society

Knowledge society

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…