An internally displaced flood-affected family sits in a tent at a makeshift camp in Jamshoro district of Sindh province on September 26, 2022. —...
The death anniversary of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, Sindh’s most celebrated poet-reformer will be observed on Friday in Bhit Shah .Regarding his...
Development processes are meant to empower people and add to their social, cultural, economic and political wellbeing. If people remain...
Every government in Pakistan has made tall claims about development and delivering wonderful benefits to the people in its name; and yet Pakistan...
In 1997, in a meeting with the Pakistani prime minister, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said that the constant change in...
“Peacocks are dead and the crows are ruling the country”. So lamented Shah Latif as his homeland fell into hands of charlatans piling miseries...
“Learn to distinguish between the flickering light of a night lamp and the shining rays of the rising sun”. So said Shah Latif, the polymath...
Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai whose 270th anniversary will be observed tomorrow is known as the great Sufi poet of Sindh. His poetry is recited and...
The story of Palestine is like the story of no other country. It is spread over millennia and at any time in history, it has always attracted the...
Was the independence of Pakistan from the British Raj in 1947 an act of de-colonization or merely a communal event? And is it any comfort or...
In the first part of our discussion, we talked about how a modern 20th century democratic state was high-jacked by medievalism 73 years ago and is...
Part - IAs the state of Pakistan secured freedom from colonialism after WW2, did the people of Pakistan also secure liberation from the inequities...
As if we didn’t already have enough controversies raging through the length and breadth of our society, another one has been added in the name of...
If people really mattered, would wolves be allowed to lead the sheep? Or wolves in sheep’s clothing not be recognized and removed before they eat...
The writer designed the Board of Investment and the First Women’s Bank.The myth of independence from colonialism has been shattered in many...
To put it simply: change the system of government, if you want to change the fortunes of the country. “Why has Pakistan not realized its...
The Board of Investment has been in the news with declining investment flows and frequent changes, where three chairmen and three secretaries have...
As if the federal government hasn’t already got a plate full of problems – having to revive a stagnant economy, reform broken-down and...
How did Pakistan land in such a predicament? For 40 years, Pakistan has been following the same beaten track of finding funds from abroad to finance...
About 50 countries in Asia and Africa became sovereign, independent nations after Second World War as decolonization by European powers gained...
‘Why has Pakistan not realised its potential?” asked Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore, many years ago – after I had made a...
As Pakistan struggles to address the challenges of our perennial current account deficits, Prime Minister Imran Khan has prioritised four areas to...
The most welcome decision emerging from Prime Minister Imran Khan’s first cabinet meeting was to put an end to discretionary fund allocations,...
Were the recent elections a peaceful revolt of the silent majority against the incompetence and greed that had become the hallmark of a...
As Imran Khan-led PTI government prepares to take charge of the country, it is likely to face several challenges. Although many will need to be...
The victory of Imran Khan’s PTI in the July 25 elections has fostered hope that Pakistan may have turned the corner. People believe that the age...
Industrialisation of economies is the sine qua non of developed countries. In fact, the distinction between the developed and developing countries...
A survey at the recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos showed that 60 percent of the businessmen and political leaders attending the...
Samuel P Huntington may have talked about a worldwide clash of civilisations, but we have a clash of cultures going on right here within our...
In today’s globalised world when capital can freely move across national boundaries, any country can attract as much investment as it needs. The...
Was the struggle to gain independence from colonialism meant to open up opportunities denied to people by dismantling the colonial structure and its...
The governance of a democratic country is more than a matter of mere politics. Like economics, politics has an important role to play in society....
The year was 1979 and the place was Cambridge, Massachusetts. All seats in the large hall were quickly filled up, as were aisles and the area in...
Our trade statistics over the last few years continue to paint a grim picture of the structural issues in the country’s trade and industrial...
“Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the US,” said the president of Mexico. No, it was not its current president, nor was this...
The British newspaper, The Independent, shook the world’s conscience in 2014 when it published the results of research carried out by ONE...
As the uni-polar world begins to weaken and the multi-polar order struggles to define itself, the world is gradually entering the age of...
Over the last 100 years, the world has lived through four different world orders. It has arrived at the same multi-polar order that prevailed in the...
No pundit had predicted it – not even by a long shot. Donald Trump has won the US presidential election on the wave of an anti-globalisation...
The division between rich and poor nations is neither god-given nor does it have divine sanction. It is neither determined by rich deposits of...
Anger and frustration is sweeping across large swaths of population in rich and developed countries against the free movement of capital and labour...
We are so near in so many ways – sharing history, geographical proximity, faith, culture, commercial and family relations for centuries. Such...
The writer designed the Board of Investment and the First Women’s Bank. Bereft of synergy with indigenous sources, our energy chessboard has...
“Tell me”, said former prime minister of Singapore Lee Kwan Yew during a meeting with this write, “why has Pakistan not realised...
Two hundred years after losing its preeminent position as the centre of world economy, Asia has regained it. The largest and most populous...
For too long, other countries have been overtaking Pakistan while our children have been leaving their homeland in search of a better future abroad....
Like misaligned medical prescription, which causes serious side effects instead of addressing the original ailments of the patient, our system of...
Let us first take the mystery out of malgovernance. The principal ingredients of malgovernance of a country are two: the inefficiency of its state...
Although the state as a political institution evolved over ten thousand years ago in response to human needs, for long periods of time –...
People are not born good or bad; law-abiding or wild and violent. The way they are governed makes them one or the other. And without reforming the...
