Country needs a new finance minister
Ishaq Dar, the incumbent finance minister, is clearly unable to give any, let alone, due attention to the portfolio of finance that he nonetheless refuses to surrender. Today the country…
A deadly nexus
It is a known fact that in Karachi, violent means were used to achieve political goals, safeguard personal interests and maintain political dominance for decades. The nexus of politics and…
Child poverty
Women and children suffer the most in any crisis, whether a natural disaster, war, pandemic or economic crisis. The economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed millions of…
An ordinary budget
Extraordinary situations demand extraordinary responses. We are facing an extraordinary situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the current economic crisis and the locust attacks. The government has to fight on…
PTI’s economic agenda
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) presented a list of actions during the first hundred days in power on 19 May with Asad Umer, Imran Khan's proposed Finance Minister, outlining the party's…
Econ 101?
With the fifth and final year's budget during the current tenure of the Sharif administration expected to be presented to parliament before the onset of Ramazan, ie, in the current…
Data integrity remains an issue
Prime Minister Imran Khan's signature Ehsaas programme launched on 27 March 2019 with his Policy Statement uploaded on the website highlights the need for data integrity though it is unclear…
Truths, half truths and then…
The unchallenged legacy of Donald Trump's presidency has been an almost routine fact-check of all statements he makes. This exercise has become increasingly relevant in assessing the grandiose claims by…
The disconnect
Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863 described democratic government as: “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”. It envisaged a government…
War, lies and failure
IT was an unwinnable conflict but lies covered the failure. For almost two decades, the American people have been misled by their leaders over a war that has gone wrong.…
