Trade and industry in Pakistan is all but consumed by the ongoing trade negotiations with India. Information flow on such an important development for the country is largely restricted to…
What is the worst sandwich in international relations? Many countries’ leaders would name their own country in the middle, pressed up against the proverbial rocks on one side and difficult,…
In 2011 an overcrowded bus with faulty brakes carrying schoolchildren fell into a ravine near Kallar Kahar, Punjab, killing more than 40 students. The tragedy briefly focused our attention on…
For sometime now, the indicators of growth and investment appear to have acquired permanence at a low level of equilibrium. Compared with growth rates of 5.5pc throughout the 1980s and…
Power policy in this country has long been characterised by indecision, ad-hocism and inaction. In the rare case when action has been taken, ill-conceived interventions have had disastrous consequences that…
If the drain on the public exchequer was the reason for privatisation then the government should focus solely on privatising loss-making SOEs. So why then are profitable entities such as…
The regressive fiscal measures taken by the PML-N government in its first nine months in power make it abundantly clear that PM Sharif’s ‘most experienced’ team has no interest in…
In January every year, the elite almost from every walk of life – politics, business, academia, multilateral institutions, and philanthropy – gather in the Swiss village Davos for deliberations on…
Arather systematic analysis of western cultural industries from a Marxist perspective began in earnest in the 1950s when a cohort of radical intellectuals – Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Raymond Williams,…
In previous articles I have described some of the amazing developments that are occurring in the field of biological sciences. These include the blind being able to see with their…
