Last week, historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder spoke to CBC’s Matt Galloway in Vancouver. The conversation available online is mostly about his works. But what really stumped me was … Read More
The US presidential election are too close to call. With Donald Trump and Kamala Harris neck and neck, what generates interest for Pakistanis living 12,000 km away from the shores … Read More
There is one easy way to check the level of democracy in a country. The more a state suppresses dissent, the more insecure it is. There is another one: the … Read More
Pakistan’s power sector has long been a tale of reforms that promise much but deliver little. Despite decades of policy interventions aimed at boosting energy generation, reducing losses, and reforming … Read More
10th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development concluded at Geneva. The concept paper of Working Group on the Right to Development states that the Guiding Principles … Read More
The United States presidential election has always held significant interest for Pakistan, as American foreign policy shapes Pakistan-U.S. relations in ways that affect Pakistan’s economic stability, security, and diplomatic standing. … Read More
MUKESH Ambani, of the unending wedding ceremonies fame, recently enlightened Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about the Sanskrit meaning of his company’s name and its significance in the logframe of progress. … Read More
ONE would need more than 10 fingers to count the number of lawyers who have governed Pakistan since its inception. Our founder was a lawyer; our first prime minister a … Read More
THERE is something about private investment that successive governments in Pakistan have failed to understand. Promoting private investment is a bit like catching a bird. You cannot chase after … Read More
BUREAUCRATIC reforms have become essential, as a critical constraint today on the effective functioning of government is the budgetary and business cost of its overextended mandate. Bureaucrats claim to be … Read More
