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Hussain & justice

TODAY, people across the world — regardless of race, creed and colour — are all groaning under the weight of injustice and oppression. Some are caught in the midst of…

After the election

Here’s pre-election scene 1: The government of Pakistan has undertaken some critical reforms including rationalization of gas prices, rationalization of electricity subsidies and lowering of trade tariffs. Here’s pre-election scene…

Pain is coming

Pakistan’s most important decision-makers are now facing a dire and extreme choice. They can either choose to inflict some long overdue pain on elite rent seekers, or they can choose…

Last chance?

For a staggering 73 years, ever since our joining the IMF in 1950, we have been in and out of the IMF Emergency Ward not once, not twice, but a…

IK bowls yorkers with accuracy–I

A cricketer par excellence, apparently has checkmated himself perilously on the political chess board. All competitive sports and endeavors are essentially about having the ability to anticipate: how would an…

Depleting reserves

As of August 2021, net reserves with the SBP stood at $20 billion. Net reserves with the SBP have since fallen to $12 billion. Over the past seven months, the…

The tipping point

Pakistan is dangerously close to slipping into economic and, quite possibly, social and political chaos. The almost unprecedented anarchy we recently saw on the political scene and other fronts is…

The climate threat

“We are close to the tipping point – where global warming becomes irreversible” — Stephen Hawking Pakistan is perilously caught in the eye of a perfect climate storm. It is…

Apocalyptic floods

The people of Pakistan have seen natural disasters like the 2022 floods before. In 2010 and 2011, devastating floods across the country damaged several parts of each province. Before this,…