Mr Khan in Wonderland
The chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, has penned an article in this newspaper – Dialogue: the best of difficult options – explaining his position on the Taliban threat. It’s…
Politically correct but…
The federal government is all set to introduce a constitutional amendment bill to extend the system of representation of different regions in appointments – popularly known as the quota system…
Culpability for crises
The debilitating economic crises facing Pakistan and the deplorable state of public services are mostly a result of mismanagement, inaction and the blatantly wrong policies that have been pursued by…
Subsidies and IMF
The staff level agreement reached between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Finance Minister Ishaq Dar contained the standard normal IMF condition: "untargeted subsidies that disproportionately benefit the well-off will…
Don’t resume hanging
Among the first acts of the new rulers is their reported decision to roll back one of the most ennobling policies of the previous government — the moratorium on execution…
Security meltdown
Shocking as it may be, despite the uncontrollable spiral of militant violence threatening to push the country beyond the brink, we do not have a coherent strategy to counter the…
Mandviwalla vs Sheikh
Serious charges are surfacing against the newly appointed Finance Minister Saleem H. Mandviwalla and lately the three-year reign of Dr Hafeez Sheikh marked by unsustainable reliance on domestic borrowing, poorly…
Towards TARP-II?
In the beginning it was tax evasion, and then became rampant corruption and eventually mafias took over, making the FBR irrelevant in most of the sectors-Ali Arshad Hakeem, Chairman FBR.…
Agenda for the nation 2013 and beyond-III
Over the past five years, extremely bad governance wrought with corruption and compromise in the name of continuity of democracy has brought the country to a disastrous point. This has…
Technocratic turncoats
Turncoat or ‘lota’ is a familiar word for the people of Pakistan. It is a pejorative commonly used for our politicians who change parties frequently at the altar of ‘national…
