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Sterile charters

LIFE is cyclical — what goes around, comes around. The ancients believed that in a full lifetime, if you are born rich, you will suffer poverty but die rich. If…

The IMF in perspective

A POPULAR refrain of policymakers, many TV anchors and most public commentators in Pakistan is to vilify the IMF and to blame it for the country’s myriad economic woes ranging…

Issues with BRT

WHILE meeting an Asian Development Bank delegation earlier this month, Sindh’s caretaker chief minister said that 180 solar-powered buses will be introduced to support the operations of the Bus Rapid…

Islamic finance for climate

THE 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP 27, took place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, last month. Against the backdrop of…

The great wave

“You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you ….” It is said art and literature are timeless. Be it a modern quote from…

Don’t blame the Chinese

AN exam question for CSS aspirants: what’s higher than the Himalayas, deeper than the seas, stronger than steel, and sweeter than honey? Well, dear candidate, any hesitation suggests your patriotism…

The reality of foreign assistance

IN the modern age, no country can flourish in isolation. They have to trade: whether for fuel, technology, labour, etc. Pakistan wants to import much, but has limited competitive goods…

Vision for education

There were recent reports in the media that the president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) had recommended Pakistan consider adopting India’s ULLAS (Understanding of Lifelong Learning for All in…

IPPs: missing the forest for the trees

The 2024 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) negotiations are entering their second round. The authorities are employing game theory strategies, but this round is being conducted under different terms compared to…

Afghanistan’s moral dilemma

Afghanistan’s new Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, a codification of the existing rules, marks a continuation of the increasing miseries of the Afghan people. Yet,…