The only caveat
The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2013, ‘The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World’ is a vindication of the assertion that the future of world economic growth…
PPP’s strategy to retain power
Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) 2013 election strategy is distinct from its own past strategies as well as those being employed by other political parties. While the immediate family of…
Not out of the woods
For some it’s the new El Dorado. Foreign investors are lining up to do business in Myanmar, a once-pariah nation which only a couple of years ago was almost as…
Unequal in life and death
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”, pigs proclaim in Orwell’s Animal Farm to explain their supremacy and right to rule. Apparently disparity in life…
World Bank pushing poverty eradication, education goals
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has a goal of "virtually ending" extreme poverty by 2030. "I have no doubt that the world could end extreme poverty within a generation,…
Blood, pride and hope
Modern analyses of the comparative strength of states utilise metrics such as population, GDP, military spending and other `objective` criteria. The `human` factor the sentiments and emotions of the concerned…
Quaid’s vision of foreign policy
The Founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah had envisioned the newly independent Muslim state's foreign policy to be one of "peace with all, and enmity with none". Pakistan must…
Iron Lady? Rust in peace’
Over a week after her death, Margaret Thatcher continues to divide Britain much as she did during her 12 years in power. Against a backdrop of praise in Parliament, and…
Fear of the recluse
American friends are greatly irritated when others blame their country for so many ills of this world. But they cannot deny that it was the US that first released the…
Human hybrids in economic system
What is more important - knowledge of economics as taught and practised in the West or Wisdom as practised in the East or local level ethics? Pakistan has always been…
