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Dr Manzoor Ali Isran
Dr Manzoor Ali Isran

  • July 17, 2020

    Visionary educationist

    After the sad and sudden death of Nisar Ahmed Siddiqi, the vice chancellor of IBA-Sukkur, jockeying for a replacement has begun and there are a...

  • May 29, 2020

    Covid-19 and campuses

    Where Covid-19 has disrupted economic and cultural life, it has also interrupted our social and educational life. All human activity has come to a...

  • May 19, 2020

    Pandemics and poverty

    Most pandemics are natural and begin with pathogens leaping from wild or domesticated animals to humans, in what is called a ‘zoonotic...

  • May 06, 2020

    The fault is in the system

    The writer works as professor in thedepartment of management sciences at SZABIST, Karachi.The Covid-19 pandemic is relentless. It does not recognise...

  • April 01, 2020

    How to deal with Covid-19

    Like other countries, Pakistan too has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic, and on a daily basis the cases of infected persons are surging and...

  • February 13, 2020

    Rising crony capitalism

    Usually, entrepreneurs invest their energy, ideas and money to increase the quality of the products they produce, higher knowledge-worker and...

  • January 27, 2020

    A post- Soleimani region

    The writer works as professor in thedepartment of management sciences at SZABIST, Karachi.Politics in the Middle East has taken an ugly turn after...

  • December 31, 2019

    On sovereignty

    Pakistan was hit by a diplomatic embarrassment when Prime Minister Imran Khan decided not to attend the Kuala Lumpur summit, presumably because of...

  • December 17, 2019

    Freedom on campus

    It is unfortunate that the state has decided to stand against students, academics and civil society activist demanding the restoration of student...

  • December 09, 2019

    Rising financial colonialism

    Pakistan has been hit with a serious financial crisis. The underlying causes may range from poor decision-making, decreased exports, low level of...

  • October 17, 2019

    Corporate greed

    We are living in interesting times where the capacity of the state as a manager is crumbling and corporations are emerging as a strong force to...

  • August 28, 2019

    An administrative blackhole

    Karachi seems to be a hapless city, with no one owning it despite the fact that it feeds millions of people. Its problems are increasing day by day...

  • August 20, 2019

    Rebranding Pakistan

    Pakistan has an image problem in the global community nowadays. The country has, over the years, been identified with growing fundamentalism,...

  • July 19, 2019

    The resistance to IMF reforms

    The agreement signed between the PTI led-government and the IMF for structural reforms in the economy is evoking resistance from people of all walks...

  • July 11, 2019

    IMF and the road to stabilisation

    As Pakistan joins the IMF programme for the 13th time, to get $6 billion over a period of three years to stabilize its shattered economy, there has...

  • November 01, 2018

    Stabilisation or overkill

    The PTI government has finally requested the IMF for a bailout package to save the economy from further destruction. Minister for Finance Asad Umar...

  • October 10, 2018

    Violence and development

    Pakistan is currently faced with a grim economic situation as its economic indicators are getting murkier by the day. The rupee is dipping against...