When we study the pattern of the recurrent balance of payments crises, we find that its magnitude has an escalating trend. This time, such is the...
The challenge in dealing with the short-term crisis is to avoid debt default without making the poor pay for it. At the same time, the tactical...
The new gem from Akbar S Ahmed is a compiled and edited publication of two apparently unrelated, but subtly interlinked manuscripts: A set of...
Pakistan has begun to enter the steeply rising phase of the incidence of the Covid-19 infection. Less than a month ago on February 26, there were...
Covid-19 has made human suffering the predominant preoccupation for policymakers across the world. Out of the darkness of death and disease is...
Modi’s move in Kashmir was designed to present a political fait accompli to Kashmiris, Pakistan and the international community. But instead of...
The annexation of Indian Occupied Kashmir by the government of PM Modi signifies the onset of a new dynamic of power in the Subcontinent that could...
Three features of the present economic and security environment lead to the surmise that Pakistan is in the grip of what is termed ‘unconventional...
As Pakistan enters into its 13th IMF programme, it may be helpful to consider the likely economic, political and security consequences. Since the...
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi on Sunday, April 7, in a press briefing in Multan, announced that the government had “reliable” information...
