The Emirate of TTP
There is a businessman in Karachi who lives in one of those manors with barbed wires atop high walls. He generates his own electricity through solar technology, as none is…
The freedom to travel
The anguish of the visa line is known to every Pakistani who has ever had the aspiration to travel or has been desperate to do so. Outside the embassies of…
Why we break lines and why it matters
For as long as I can remember, I have been hearing the argument that we Pakistanis just cannot stand in lines. The argument is usually made in conjunction with the…
Pakistan’s foreign exchange earnings
If one is to extend appreciation to any one (individual or group of people) for saving the Pakistani economy from complete collapse it is not our finance ministers from Dar…
A pigment of our imagination
They say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. If only it were that simple. Plato, to whom the much exploited pearl of wisdom is attributed, suggested “beholding beauty…
Spotlight: Are we in for more of the same for another half decade?: ‘Muk Muka’ at its crudest: the Captain is right!
Hobnobbing with new found mutual admiration between the outing de facto ruler of the country for five long years and the newly elected ruler hopefully for the term of another…
Memo from the US…Wasting a crisis
The Nawaz government had a rare opportunity to fix the financial crisis bedevilling state-owned entities (SOEs). Did he not promise to appoint people of merit to head these SOEs? With…
A plan at last
The federal interior minister’s excellent initiative for reinvigorating the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (Nacta) is most welcome as is the concept of a National Intelligence Secretariat. Nacta has been mostly dormant,…
Learning from the Turks
In this age of armed conflicts and global terrorism, threats and insecurity, perhaps there is one country where you land with a dark green passport and you are treated with…
‘I-5 Group’
Pakistan possesses all the basic ingredients essential for becoming a global hub for Islamic banking and finance. The biggest advantage that Pakistan has over its competitors in Islamic banking and…
