Search for a political settlement
Three years ago – on May 6, 2018 – I barely survived an assassination attempt on my life as the interior minister of the country. Although my bullet wounds have…
Three years ago – on May 6, 2018 – I barely survived an assassination attempt on my life as the interior minister of the country. Although my bullet wounds have…
THE Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC), which had come into being through an ordinance and subsequently an act of parliament, had been responsible since 1962 for medical education as…
The traditional balance sheet, with its main emphasis on capital as the primary concern of managers, is skewed in favour of the shareholders and has failed us as society in…
Asad Umar, the Finance Minister, stated in the Senate Tuesday that he has directed Secretary Finance to initiate the process for the National Finance Commission (NFC) award which, as per…
Corruption has been in the national discourse for as long as Pakistan existed and with greater emphasis since the PTI started to function as a party and came into power.…
Since the announcement of the staff-level agreement with the IMF, the refrain in the ensuing debate, especially by government representatives, is that we should have been anyway doing what has…
It was agreements and protocols galore – eight to be precise – during the high-profile visit of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), the first in line to the Saudi…
Two common fallacies of reasoning are the ad hominem and genetic fallacies. An argument is ad hominem when instead of validly drawing a conclusion from the premise it attacks the…
Today’s Pakistan should have been a far better place than it was in 2008 and 2013. But, despite some very marginal improvements, we are far from moving towards inclusive and…
While we continue to squabble over the results of Election 2018, with each side trying to make its case for what went wrong and what didn’t and whether the PM’s…