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S Akbar Zaidi
S Akbar Zaidi

  • April 19, 2020

    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...

  • April 19, 2020

    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...

  • April 19, 2020

    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...

  • April 13, 2016

    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...

  • January 27, 2016

    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...

  • December 15, 2015

    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...

  • September 02, 2015

    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,...

  • August 27, 2015

    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...

  • June 30, 2015

    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...

  • June 26, 2015

    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...

  • June 17, 2015

    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...

  • May 29, 2015

    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...

  • May 07, 2015

    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...

  • March 09, 2015

    ‘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...