Madness, solitude and creativity
Life has lost its sheen in our hyper-connected, Prozac-driven world
Madness has many hues and nuances. Solitude removes all the distractions and smoke screens...
Wrong diagnosis, wrong treatment
Address the balance of payment problem first
By Dr Safdar A Butt
There is no denying the fact that Pakistan is going through an economic...
A column about nothing
On Lawrence Krauss’s Universe from Nothing
After ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ arguably the most fundamental question that has ever been contemplated...
IMF programme: problem with tackling inflation and exchange rate issues
Malaysia in the 1990s is instructive
In the recent statement on the staff-level agreement between Pakistan and the IMF on a three-year EFF (Extended...
Age of extremism
With education increasing in numbers around the world, one would expect more tolerance and less bigotry. Literacy would pave the way for future generations,...
‘Modi ka jo yaar…’
Dealing with his jingoistic agenda
In a post Trumpian world of rising right wing populism, it is no surprise that in our neighbourhood ultra nationalist...
Pakistan’s place in Digital Economy Market
The next phase of development has begun
By Yasin Joyia
Historically, the areas that are part of the present Pakistan always have been connectors in...
The scent of life
Candid Corner
Having imbibed liberally from the state, giving some of it back should not be grudged
“Beyond the scaffold, in the haze of the...
Beware of the D-Day
Some rights and wrongs revisited
For I say this in an hour of change and challenge, in a year of hope and fear, in...
Roadmap to sustainable agriculture
By Younus Sandeela
All interventions must be made simultaneously
Agriculture happens to be the most misunderstood sector of the economy. Unfortunately, we still see it...
Prescription for increasing tax revenues
Reforms are needed in the tax sector
Taxation is an extremely important source of funding for any state to finance the running of the...
Setting up the chessboard
At Penpoint
Greece provides an example of Pakistan’s future
Inexorably, Pakistan comes closer and closer to its tryst with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)...
Rising Islamophobia
The trend is all over
It is alarming to see how Islamophobes have begun to dominate secular forces in ‘civilised’ Western democracies. During the...
RAW machinations in Gilgit-Baltistan foiled
Security forces have successfully busted the local chapter of Balawaristan National Front (Hameed Group) Gilgit-Baltistan, a network of Indian intelligence agency Research and Analysis...
State vs ‘professional beggars’
Poverty is not a choice
Capitalism thrives on the myth of 'choice'. This allows us to lay blame on disempowered individuals for making 'wrong'...
Flopped pilot project
Are we on a train to nowhere?
Circumstances suggest the international arena is threatened by WWIII but in Third World countries like Pakistan, an...
The IMF tragedy
Pakistanis will survive this too
After the horrifying Easter Sunday bombings, in an exclusive interview with Hindustan Times, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Prime Minister...
