As Karl Marx wrote: “The ideas of the ruling class are, in any age, the ruling ideas” . Today, as the ruling class of global and domestic...
Clouds are gathering over the present dispensation of government, but they have a silver lining. After thirty years, there is a loosening of the...
The root cause of the perennial crisis of public finance in Pakistan is as easy to understand as it is difficult to correct. The crisis does not...
“One of the more pleasurable sins of economic planners,” Mahbubul Haq wrote in 1973, “is their addiction to economic fashions”. This applies...
In the ongoing debate over whether or not to seek an IMF bailout, the paramount choice facing the incoming government has not received the attention...
The real function of income tax in Pakistan is not to finance expenditures on citizens by government, but to victimise political opponents and...
In an article published in August 2007, I raised the question of whether expats are eligible for public office. Since then, a great deal of clarity...
Unfortunately, much confusion surrounds the Articles 62 and 63 of the constitution. In particular, the notions of ‘sadiq’ and ‘ameen’ have...
