Crime analytics
WITH the increase in population in both urban and rural areas, crime in Pakistan has taken on a more varied and complex dimension. A paradigm shift in traditional policing methods…
Friends and Masters
Altaf Gauhar was no intellectual lightweight. A little odd, then, for him to choose Friends not Masters as title of the book he ghosted for Ayub. For a man of…
China in the driver’s seat amid calls for Africa debt relief
Support is growing for debt relief to help the world’s poorest, indebted nations - most of them in Africa - confront the economic havoc wreaked by COVID-19. But there is…
Formal and non-formal education
The World Bank is reported to have stated that it will assist Pakistan in developing a new model of non-formal education which, it said, would combine literacy, labour market skills…
Allama Iqbal on equitable taxation
In this article, we are highlighting the ideas of the great thinker, philosopher and poet, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, on economics and taxation. He is popularly praised and acknowledged as Musawwir-e-Pakistan…
SNC at Ayaz Melo
Ayaz Melo (the festival named after Sindhi national poet Shaikh Ayaz) is an annual event that takes place in Hyderabad every year in December. This year, the seventh iteration of…
Beware of data ‘colonialism’
In 2017, data overtook oil to become the world’s most valuable commodity, but it remains hard to define. At its most basic level, data is said to be humans in…
Constitution and tax codes — II
Justice Ch. Ijaz Ahmad in his separate note in the CIT v Eli Lily (Pvt) Ltd (2009) 100 Tax 81 (S.C. Pak) made the following remarkable comments that should be…
Agenda for 2022
We are closing on the current year and the new year is round the corner. It is worth pondering over what the agenda for 2022 for Pakistan should be. In…
Silent revolution in education
As a result of numerous projects undertaken by the technology-driven Knowledge Economy Task Force set up by Prime Minister Imran Khan in early 2019 under his chairmanship, the landscape of…
