The writer is a columnist based in Islamabad.
Myth number 1: Pakistan’s defence budget takes away a major chunk of the total budgetary resources. Not true. In Budget 2021-22, ‘Defence...
Three years ago, the PTI Manifesto 2018, ‘The road to naya Pakistan’, made some two-dozen tax-related promises. The word ‘tax’ appears 43...
The government of Pakistan raised an estimated Rs1,500 billion to “address the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.” In March 2020, PM Imran...
Populism is the “political science of providing simple answers to complex questions.” Populism is a “thin-centered ideology that considers...
Economic growth depends on three things: accumulation of capital, human resources and technological advancement. Capital – including foreign...
A man-made disaster of gigantic proportions is in the making: the government of Pakistan, with more than four dozen cabinet members, forgot to...
There’s no team. There’s no vision. There’s no policy. How can there be any positive outcome for the country? Every project goes through four...
There can be no real economic growth without political stability. In an empirically-driven study, a “sample covering 169 countries, and five-year...
Over the past 32 months, the PTI government has spent Rs10 trillion more than the government’s income. That’s the budgetary deficit. The...
