The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.In the previous part of this series we discussed how a policy can be disastrous if it has no...
On May 15, thousands of Palestinians in Occupied Palestine and throughout the ‘shatat’, or diaspora, participated in the commemoration of Nakba Day, the one event that unites...
The Covid-19 pandemic is changing the world in ways that were imaginable only in the realm of science fiction. The economic order of things is shifting fast for a lot of...
Distribution of tax revenue between the federal government and the provinces is based on a simple formula under the 1973 constitution. It has deliberately been problematized by...
Many think this should be a corona budget. Maybe it is more than that – a survival budget for the millions of citizens and businesses who need a lending hand.The pre-Covid-19...
Most of us are aware of the benefits and blessings of fasting during Ramazan. A Japanese Nobel Prize winner won this coveted prize for finding out that when a sick person is...
The government is to use the Covid-19 fund for interest payment. Serving interests of the IMF is certainly above saving people's lives.Dr Irfan ZafarIslamabad
On the basis of my personal experience and exposure with various public-sector organizations, I have logically concluded that behind every corrupt person, there is always a big boss or someone in a...
This refers to the letter, 'Cheap petrol' by Arif Majeed. While disagreeing with the writer, I would suggest further reduction in petroleum products so as to pass on maximum benefit to the general...
The current spell of unusual rain is a blessing for the business community, stockiest, hoarders, and profiteers living in big cities but a curse for the farmers living in rural areas whose crops are...
Pakistan is struggling to combat a lethal threat of swarms of locusts. They have created panic in the country and will further spread in the coming days. The government is adopting various means to...
While the world is striving hard to fight the Covid-19 outbreak, our approach to dealing with the virus has remained more dangerous than the virus itself. Lately, the federal leadership’s...
The Economic Coordination Committee in its meeting held under the chairmanship of adviser to the PM on finance at Islamabad on May 13, 2020 approved Rs56.6 billion to provide farmers subsidy on...
The NTDC has correctly noted that the power supply industry is currently in the midst of a global change which offers a historic opportunity to our policy and decision-makers to transform this...
After the air-crash tragedy that claimed 96 lives onboard with just two miraculous survivors in Karachi, speculations are rife about the possible causes of the crash. But before discussing that, we...
Covid-19 is raging across the world but even in these trying times people are being displaced or forced to migrate. There are two major reasons for this: one is the continuing conflicts in various...
