S Akbar Zaidi

S Akbar Zaidi

  • The worst is yet to come

    Pakistan’s economy was already performing at its lowest rates in over a decade before the coronavirus disrupted whatever growth potential it could...

  • The worst is yet to come

    Pakistan’s economy was already performing at its lowest rates in over a decade before the coronavirus disrupted whatever growth potential it could...

  • The worst is yet to come

    Pakistan’s economy was already performing at its lowest rates in over a decade before the coronavirus disrupted whatever growth potential it could...

  • The economy: better, but what’s your next trick?

    It is not often that the government of the day in Pakistan can claim a high degree of consensus amongst independent economists who feel that the...

  • Everyone’s an expert now

    After his return from the World Cup last year, Misbah-ul-Haq severely criticised a number of former cricketers who are now commentators on...

  • Opposition, not consensus, to neoliberalism

    From the pedestal of a regular column on the economy, in Dawn, Mr Sakib Sherani makes the arrogant and audacious, and clearly ludicrous, claim, that...

  • The missing Mother and the missing Baloch

    Given Pakistan’s current political situation, for those who thought that a film based in Balochistan would be the Pakistani version of Haider,...

  • Devaluation and the ego

    There is a sense amongst many prominent policymakers in Pakistan, particularly the finance minister, that Pakistan’s currency, in particular its...

  • Science, faith and the Moon

    A few minutes before the Reut-e-Hilal Committee was to meet in Karachi to look for the Ramzan moon on June 17 this year, a controversy erupted...

  • Heat and the arrogance of the elite

    Only the rich and the elite, in their air-conditioned homes and offices, know how to deal with Karachi’s killer heatwave. The advice they give to...

  • All power to women

    Pakistan is not a country known for equality between men and women. Yet, in recent months and years, a number of events and developments have taken...

  • The liberal’s education myth

    Of all the myths the Pakistani liberal spews most ardently, the one regarding education reform stands out the most. Liberals argue that they need...

  • The right to speak

    I was invited to speak at a seminar at Karachi University entitled Baloch Missing Persons and the Role of State and Society on May 6, organised by...

  • ‘Did the Indians ask about the Taliban?’

    Two sets of discussions on Pakistan, its politics and its political economy revealed a very different perspective on how the west sees Pakistan...