Extreme myopia
In the land where thousands of Sufis are buried and thousands are alive, where scores of Sufi orders thrive, where the likes of Buddha, Nanak and Ram have walked, where…
The new peace offensive
The hate syndrome, deliberately whipped up by successive governments and hawkish elements both in India and Pakistan, has almost become visceral and whenever somebody tries to advocate a break from…
The viability of agri income tax
The new government has many burning issues to deal with. Some of these have been highlighted by the media and some by the politicians themselves. The budgetary constraint that is…
Are you a militant moderate?
An interesting news item about Turkey has reached us via Peshawar. The source is Dr Ali Murat Yel of Istanbul’s Marmara University, who says that militant secularism in Turkey has…
Institutions and economic performance: Election Outlook-XIX
There is a long list of economists-from Adam Smith to W Arthur Lewis and from Douglas C North to Niall Ferguson-who have strongly highlighted the importance of institution building for…
Biogas potential in Pakistan
For the last five years, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources (MPNR) has been trying to implement a LNG project of a rather small capacity of 400 Billion Cubic Feet…
