Pakistan as a regional manufacturing hub?
Alongside are the excerpts from the key-note address that the writer delivered at Lahore School of Economics last month. Manufacturing's share in GDP increased from about 8 percent in 1950 to…
Russia’s overtures
THE endgame in Afghanistan appears to be trending towards a happy ending and Pak-Afghan-US relational harmony has never been better. At the same time we have seen an anxious Russia…
Where is NCHR?
THE 64th global Human Rights Day held yesterday marked 30 months since Pakistan passed the National Commission for Human Rights Act, providing for the establishment of a National Commission for…
Ups and downs of oil prices
OIL remains the world’s most critical commodity. It has fuelled the industrial age. For over a century, oil politics has been almost synonymous with geopolitics; the cause of numerous wars…
Pakistan’s security challenges
Part - I Pakistan’s principal challenge lies within – defeating militancy and extremism, reviving the economy, resolving the energy crisis, educating its children and generating jobs to absorb the youth…
CPEC: The ‘fate changer’
CPEC is not merely an ordinary economic corridor or a transit trade route, but it would be a fate changer project through which the Pakistani nation would be able to…
Changing dynamics in region
Last one week was packed with events which may lead to a significant economic and political impact and consequences for Pakistan and the region. PM Nawaz Sharif's warm welcome by…
India, Pakistan and a changing world
Dubai eye The reality finally seems to have dawned on Pakistan. Although Pakistani officials and intellectuals have from time to time complained of the fickle and far from trusting nature…
China’s struggle for water security
Way back in 1999, before he became China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao warned that water scarcity posed one of the greatest threats to the "survival of the nation". Sixteen years…
Harnessing the sun
It is no secret that the inadequacy in Pakistan’s existing energy infrastructure has consistently been encumbering the national economy and is the basic root cause for the slow rate of…
