An economic force-multiplier encompassing road connectivity, energy, and infrastructure outlays, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) faces a host of internal and external security challenges. Annunciated by the Chinese President, "One…
I want someone to help me understand how two thousand unarmed protestors, sitting, eating, defecating, and swearing in front of parliament for four days made the capital and a nation…
The statement that hunger has reached crisis proportions in Pakistan may come as a surprise to anyone eating at a plush restaurant or walking down the well-stocked aisle of an…
India has witnessed a lot of socio-political turmoil over the last few weeks. Not since the early Zia years – in Pakistan – has a South Asian government been accused…
In my two previous articles in this newspaper, I have indicated the conceptual framework and the specific policies to suggest that inclusive growth in Pakistan is essential to have a…
Microfinance during the last century was seen as a panacea for poverty alleviation, but since then there has been greater understanding of it as one among a variety of tools…
A decade ago, Foad Fanaei packed his belongings and left sanction-hit Iran in the hope that the family's engineering firm would thrive in Qatar. Starting up in the Gulf Arab…
As if the task of saving the Nawaz-Modi initiative from being derailed was not challenging enough, Saudi Arabia’s aggressive drive to align Pakistan with itself is likely to test this…
Berlin-based Transparency International (TI) launched its annual Corruption Perception Index 2015 on January 27. The index ranks countries on the basis of perceptions regarding incidence of corruption in the public…
Can Pakistan play a meaningful mediatory role in ironing out Arab-Iranian rift? For a country to undertake a mediatory mission it must have strong credentials with effective diplomacy, robust economy…
