Pakistan’s Reconstructive Surgery | Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Silent. Decaying. Smouldering. Hurting without much noise. That is how most South Asians spend their mortal lives. When it becomes …
Read MorePolitical Economy of Taxation | Sakib Sherani
IF a second marriage is dubbed a “triumph of hope over experience”, what should an eighth tax amnesty scheme be …
Read MoreThe US Shouldn’t Take Sides in Ksa-Iran Tension | Fareed Zakaria
Over the past two decades, the United States has approached the Middle East through its own conceptual frameworks: dictatorships vs …
Read MoreGood Governance and its Digital Dividend | Tariq Malik
Good governance is a hot topic in Pakistan these days. Can a fragile state deliver good governance? Ranked eleventh on …
Read MoreHow Not to Make CPEC Controversial
implementation of the CPEC as before. Chief Minister Khattak told media he was dissatisfied with answers to the 13 questions …
Read MoreUndermining National Interests | Malik Muhammad Ashraf
Chief Minister KP Pervez Khattak, of late, has been trying to foment political controversy about implementation of CPEC, particularly the …
Read MoreThe Cost of National Security | Afiya Shehrbano
udging by our media, we must be the most insecure country in the world. On a daily basis, there is …
Read MoreNational Debt: Facts From Fiction? | Dr Kamal Monnoo
Last week at a CPEC road network’s inaugural ceremony in Baluchistan, the finance minister in his address was visibly angry …
Read MorePakistan Should Play a Positive Role | Pak Observer Editorial
SOME media reports indicate that Pakistan has decided to remain neutral over Saudi-Iranian diplomatic row in view of closeness of …
Read MoreReforming the Civil Service | Express Tribune Editorial
The government has finalised a civil service reforms package that, on the face of it, lacks material changes in the …
Read MorePakistan Needs Socialism | Salman Al
Pakistan’s problems can be addressed only by bringing together all progressive, anti-imperialist, anti-establishment, secular political forces so as to embark …
Read MoreReclaiming Human Rights | Adan Abid
The comprehensive scheme of civil, political, economic and social rights that underlie the aspirations of the modern human rights movement …
Read MoreCPEC: The Case for the Western Route | Hurmat Ali Shah
Pakistan is supposed to be a federation, where the federating units should have judicious share of national resources. Developmental projects …
Read MoreThe Way Forward | Syed Saadat
AROUND the world, technology has taken governance to new levels, but the bureaucracy in Pakistan is constricted to writing on …
Read MoreFederation in Controlled Democracy | Afrasiab Khattak
In 2013, despite facing many challenges, Pakistani democrats celebrated the first ever completion of full constitutional term by the elected …
Read MoreReforming Pakistan’s Bureaucracy | Kulsume Hai
Red tapism, proffering bribes to speed up work, dealing with babus, sending officials countless reminders, inhospitable environments, the inability to …
Read MoreA Nation Grows When it Reads | Muhammad Omar Iftikhar
For the masses here reading is boring. This shows the collective mindset of a nation because reading requires patience; it …
Read MoreDemocratising Pakistan? | Dr Ejaz Hussain
This last part of the article will explain the post-1985 (democratisation that engulfed electoral politics in the 1990s and 2000s. …
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