The rich owe $5.7trn to the poor!
Recalling the promise, world’s richest countries made on 24 October 1970 through a landmark UN resolution, to give a small percentage of their income annually – just 0.7% – in…
A catalyst for growth
In an amazing development for the economy and people of Pakistan, a new facility of services has been provided for overseas Pakistanis or Non-Resident Pakistanis (NRPs). This initiative of the…
Voting to be poor
Empirical evidence broadly points toward stagnation, if not reduction, in the disposable income of the middle and the low paid class. This class is deemed to be the backbone of…
Inequality: our destiny?
Every age, every society, has lived with inequality. It is structural, they say; to the cynical it is part of the divine comedy. Mythology, of every culture, glorifies the strong…
Riyasat-e-Madina—II
That the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) became rich after marriage and success of trade the income obtained was used on the welfare of people. When the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) migrated to…
Giving charity
HUMAN societies are mostly heterogeneous. They consist of different people. Some are physically strong while others are weak. Some are intellectually superior while others are not, but the most crucial…
Arabic Pakistan?
THERE is a curious contrast in how the people of Pakistan have consistently prevented religion-based political parties from receiving more than eight to 10 per cent of the votes cast…
The age of spectacles
If nothing else, the ruling party is keeping us all entertained in these depressing days of a global pandemic. In the first fortnight of the month of May, the PTI…
Of some utility still
SADAQAT, who is from the areas adjacent to Azad Kashmir, has been working at a Utility Stores Corporation outlet in Lahore for the last 30 years. His village underwent a…
Irked by a slogan alone?
THE most tense, bitter and intense of moments are made bearable by clowns in every society who have an incredible sense of timing in providing comic relief when it is…
