Reforming The Bureaucracy | Ayaz Ahmed
Bureaucracy is the primary administrative agency which impartially implements the government’s policies in a country. After the introduction of social …
Read MorePakistan: A Normal Nuclear Country |Reema Shaukat
In the late 1990s, when Pakistan was convincingly struggling to streamline its democratic identity through a political process, India detonated …
Read MoreThe Troubled Census
The last national census was in 1998 and we are now eight years overdue for another. A host of political …
Read MoreNational Security and Arms Build-up | Editorial
A country’s security and integrity depends more on its overall national policy than on the weapons at its disposal. There …
Read MorePakistan’s Syrian Dilemma | Mohammad Jamil
Apart from global and regional divisions, Pakistan has its own domestic concerns vis-à-vis the sectarian nature of the conflict in …
Read MoreIneptitude in CSS | Syed Saadat
THESE days the Civil Superior Services (CSS) exam is under way to select our future civil servants. Wouldn’t it be …
Read MoreA Test of Diplomacy | Mohammad Jamil
Our foreign policy has been susceptible to manipulation because of political and economic instability brought about by inept leadership and …
Read MoreEnergy Crisis — Auspicious Developments | Malik M Ashraf
In regards to surmounting energy crisis, two very significant developments have taken place recently. One is the much awaited and …
Read MoreThe Dynamics of Good Governance | Mian Fazal Ahmad
Governance is a pivotal tool to effectively deliver peace, harmony and welfare to the public at large. Governance is the …
Read MoreThe Politics of Education | Dr Shahid Siddiqui
The conservative paradigm of education believes in the fixity of knowledge and focuses on its transmission from one generation to …
Read MorePoverty in Pakistan: Numerous Efforts, Many Numbers, Not Enough Results
There are more beggars on the streets of Pakistan today, the streetmuggers are no more forgiving and extremism is on …
Read MorePrivatisation – The Way Forward | Tariq Iqbal Khan
The government’s primary role is governance and regulation, not to manage and operate businesses. The government works in a manner …
Read MorePakistan Hits Bottom in Innovation Ranking | Riazul Haq
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Science and Technology stated in a written reply to the National Assembly (NA) that less than …
Read MoreThe Crisis of Islamic Civilization | Javid Husain
Human history is replete with descriptions of the rise, decline and fall of civilizations and empires. Islamic civilization is not …
Read MoreA Foreign Policy Wish-List | Khalid Saleem
SOME years ago, one had taken the liberty to draw up a ‘foreign policy wish list’ in the fond hope …
Read MorePakistan’s Foreign Policy Challenge | Dr Qaisar Rashid
In 2015, the major foreign policy challenge Pakistan is beset with is how to halt the downward spiral of its …
Read MorePakistan: No Democracy, Only Autocracy | Ejaz Hussain
The debate on democracy and democratisation in Pakistan is as old as the country. The majority of the existing literature …
Read MoreInvesting in People
FOR too long now, economic orthodoxy has focused on macroeconomic fundamentals to assess the health of an economy. So when …
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