Sustainable development is a concept that aims to meet the economic, social, and environmental needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. … Read More
The establishments hand-picked political leader in the form of Imran Khan and his political party, the PTI, have come full circle. From the 2018 elections the time of the one … Read More
AMONG a litany of economic woes in Pakistan, the narrowness of the tax base and excessive burden placed on citizens through consumption and withholding taxes is well established. The fact … Read More
IN a chapter from his 2005 book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman outlined 10 flatteners which contributed to the flattening out of global economies. The fall of the Berlin … Read More
WHY should we talk about corruption when we talk about climate change? This question dominated many discussions at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Washington, D.C. last week. The answer is … Read More
THE world is in strategic flux and in the midst of an intensely unsettled period. Looking ahead at key geopolitical trends and challenges in 2023, their overarching aspect is uncertainty … Read More
Democracies are not stagnant. They keep changing as they have done for the last hundred years when they have been in existence in the West and have spread to the … Read More
The Elite have a plan to destroy Pakistan. They’ve had it for decades. And it’s been working. We must have a counterplan — a plan to save our homeland — … Read More
The age-old practice of chronicling the social and cultural worlds around us as stories has evolved over centuries to take multiple forms. There was a time people narrated anecdotes and … Read More
A big problem with Pakistani history is that huge chunks of it are missing from the public record. By this, I do not mean that chronology or publicly accepted superficial … Read More
