Rebuilding human capital [Part – III]
Sixth, revamp the higher education system and research institutes where the criteria for allocating public funds would be based on promoting emerging technologies and generation and application of knowledge to…
The TLP factor
As the dust starts to settle down after the NA-240 by-election, there emerge key takeaways for political observers to assess the ongoing trends in local Karachi politics that are metaphorically…
Everything for sale
CONSCIENTIOUS intellectuals of the modern world would feel no hesitation in admitting that the original sin of the New World, including Europe and America, is slavery that they committed centuries…
Chinese firms push 5G credentials despite US ban
On a stage reserved for the biggest players in the global telecoms industry, three Chinese firms took their place alongside three Western companies — and pushed the message that they…
‘Woven air’: Bangladesh revives elite forgotten fabric
With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history. Dhaka muslin…
Confidence tricks
IN political discourse, we sometimes lose sight of the forest for the trees. It is important sometimes to zoom out and truly appreciate the forest, ask why it is currently…
Economy and security
A strong connection between the country's prosperity and military power or put simply, economy and security are two sides of the same coin; without political stability, without security and without…
From nursery to university: Emerging market investors buy into education
Two decades after Yusuf Karodia launched Mancosa, a distance learning school to teach South Africans business skills, he sold up to UK private equity firm Actis. From nurseries to exam…
Illicit trade in tobacco products — I
This is the first part of a two-part series on how to counter illicit trade in tobacco products, recoup revenue losses and discourage smoking that is great health hazard. Illicit…
Illicit trade in tobacco products — II
19.1 percent of Pakistani population, which includes 31.8 percent of men and 5.8 percent of women, consume tobacco in one form or the other. Among these tobacco consumers, 9.6 percent…
