The writer is a graduate from a western European university
People shop at a market in Lahore. — AFP/FileWhenever the economy is up the creek, as at present, messages start doing the rounds that if each...
Fiscal deficit, however, becomes a problem, and a serious one if it’s persistently high, when, as in the case of Pakistan
Is Imran Khan's letter an earnest attempt to safeguard genuine democracy in Pakistan?
Former PM Shahbaz Sharif, former Present Asif Zardari, and PPP Chairmen Bilawal Bhutto during the press conference on February 20, 2024. —...
The chasm between the two often prepares the ground for the rise of such sinister movements as fascism, populism and cultism
In the political context, a ladla is one who gets preferential treatment or undue favours from the people or institutions that matter
As the nation gears up for national elections, the question that dominates media and political discourse is: which party will carry the day? Will it...
A representational image of the National Assembly session. — AFP/FilePolitical activities will heat up in the wake of the announcement of the...
Former Prime Minister and graft convict Nawaz Sharif leaves after appearing before the High Court in Islamabad on October 24, 2023. —...
Cultural lag is a condition in a society where one aspect of culture is out of kilter with another to which it is related. As a result, society...
August 17 marks the death anniversary of General Ziaul Haq, Pakistan’s longest serving ruler. Having ousted the country’s hitherto most popular...
The PTI received a second setback after the fateful day of May 9, 2023. A few weeks ago, a large number of frontline party leaders from Punjab –...
Dollars are pouring in following the conclusion of a $3 billion short-term credit programme with the IMF. Pakistan has received the first tranche of...
It was ironic for the White House to condemn cross-border terrorism in the context of Pakistan-India relations while playing host to the man who as...
For a politician who was brought up in the lap of the powers that be and who rode to power on their coattails, it must be excruciatingly agonizing...
Composed on the grandest of scales and couched in the most sublime of languages, the epic represents the highest form of poetry. Typically, this...
The violence, arson and pillage that followed the arrest of populist leader Imran Khan is emblematic of Pakistan’s descent into fascism. The way...
Whenever the economy is in hot waters, selling state-owned enterprises is seen as a key ingredient of the recipe for economic recovery. The IMF,...
This April marks the golden jubilee of the adoption of the 1973 constitution. The last 50 years have been a bumpy ride for the basic law of the...
The current tug-of-war between the executive/parliament and the judiciary may be seen from two perspectives: one, as a morbid manifestation of a...
Did the PML-N make a rational choice by opting to vote out the then prime minister in April last year and subsequently form a coalition rather than...
Released in 2008, the Bollywood movie ‘Shaurya’ depicts the court martial of a Muslim officer of the Indian army for having shot his senior...
In ‘tell-all’ interviews and explosive statements, former prime minister Imran Khan, who has the knack of staying in the news, is heaping all...
Every nation has some pipedreams. We Pakistanis have several. One of them is to say goodbye to the IMF once and for all and start implementing an...
History is repetitive and nature is retributive. These are two of the most potent notions that have fired human imagination since the dawn of...
A cult leader is regarded by his/her followers as the epitome of virtue and wisdom and thus a complete stranger to the intellectual or moral lapses...
Ancient Greece is known as the cradle of Western philosophy and produced some of the greatest philosophers of all times. However, in the same...
Over the years, Pakistan’s economy has been confronted with a dilemma it has not been able to overcome: In the event that it registers lackluster...
The primacy of the will over the intellect or the other way around, and the tensions between an itching impulse coming straight from the heart ...
Prior to the exit of Imran Khan, in 1989 a no-trust motion was voted upon against the-then prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The contrasting manners in...
Do the sanctions imposed by the US and its European allies on Russia in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine make sense? To put the question in a...
The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.Anyone living during the 1990s would for sure have scoffed at the idea of the PPP and PML-N joining hands...
The IMF-sponsored programme can at best have a marginal effect on scaling down trade deficit, which is primarily undergirded by productivity...
The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.Both mainstream and social media are abuzz with speculations that a change in the government is on the...
The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.Over the years, Sialkot has earned a name for itself for its bustling medical equipment and sports goods...
The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.Crony capitalism refers to a system in which people in power dole out substantial benefits to businesses...
Popularized by German philosopher Nietzsche, the concept of transvaluation of values implies that norms and ideals embodied in a moral system...
In a significant move, the Chinese government has allowed couples to have three children. The permission replaces the two-child policy introduced in...
Since the advent of the Industrial Revolution in England during the 18th century, one question that has probably sparked more debate than any other...
Shaukat Tareen is the fourth finance minister in the PTI government that came to power in August 2018. A banker of considerable distinction who...
Why are the other constituents of the Pakistan Democratic Movement making such a song and dance about the PPP’s reluctance to quit from the...
It may be an oxymoron but the defeat of Finance Minister Hafeez Shaikh at the hands of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has come as an...
The selection of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Nigerian national, as the director-general of the World Trade Organization , is significant for at least two...
As if doomed by fate, as a rule parliamentary elections in Pakistan are mired in controversy. Polls for the popularly elected National Assembly give...
Donald Trump’s emergence as the villain of the piece not only for the majority of his compatriots but for other capitalist democracies as well...
The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.As the sun set on the year 2020, the energies of governments and people around the world remained...
More important than the TLP is the narrative that it espouses
The spectacle of top leadership of the PPP and the PML-N sharing the stage at public meetings in Gujranwala and Karachi has generated mixed...
The writer is an Islamabad-based columnist.In his August 27 late night speech during the Republican Party convention, US President Donald Trump put...
