The Laffer Curve and Pakistan
In the last couple of days, the newspapers in Pakistan are abuzz with another mini budget to be announced by the government of Pakistan. It seems that the Tax Revenue…
Spanish omelette
Last Sunday’s election results in Spain have vindicated the pundits who were hedging their bets. As opinion polls predicted, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservative People’s Party (PP) has emerged with…
British indecision
Tomorrow’s British election has been billed as the most unpredictable contest in 70 years, notwithstanding the overwhelming expectation that it will yield yet another hung parliament. Back in 1945, the…
Ghosts of revolutions past
The history of mankind at various moments has been a history of dissent. Dissent against oppression, exploitation, violence, tyranny, abuse of power, exacted over a peoples by another. Whether both…
A confused nation’s slow march to clarity
It has taken a long time, and precious time has been wasted. And we have had buffoons who wouldn’t be given the time of day anywhere else setting themselves up…
Pakistan and Iran: new goalposts
Pakistan is fortunate to have Iran as a strong and considerate neighbour. Although at times the relationship becomes tense mainly due to events that are mostly related to factors that…
A thriving industry
Kidnapping for ransom took root in Karachi by way of interior Sindh in the late 1980s, where previously livestock used to be abducted and returned after the abductors were paid…
Moving past the crisis metric
The question has become rhetorical: given Pakistan's abundant manpower and natural resources, bilateral donors and the IMF over the years, why has the country not been able to build a…
Great initiatives
The careers of our senior military hierarchy, a confidential prerogative of the military secretary’s branch of the GHQ, are being openly (and irresponsibly) discussed in the media, thanks to the…
Of human bondage
The US State Department released the ‘Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, 2013 on June 19. The report has been regularly issued every year since 2001. It grades different countries of…
