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Accounting for the West – Abdul Sattar
The recent G7 conference has attempted to raise the spectre of tensions between the West and other global stakeholders by unleashing a torrent...
Making a good budget great – Mosharraf Zaidi
The domestic political consensus about Pakistan’s economy is in. It isn’t a good look for anyone that dreams of a better day for...
Among the best – Rahimullah Yusufzai
I hope you will write an obituary when I die,” Omar Khan Afridi once requested. He knew that I like writing obituaries about people...
Democracy in Chile – Khalid Bhatti
Finally, people in Chile have given a clear mandate to the constituent assembly to change the 1980 constitution imposed by the vicious military dictatorship...
How to select good books- Dr Naazir Mahmood
Many readers and aspiring readers ask about how to select good books, as if there is a universal formula that one can apply on...
Not a people’s budget – Dr Ikramul Haq
Fixing of unachievable tax target for the FBR represents continuation of past legacies that relied on ill-directed, illogical, regressive and unfair taxes. Such skewered...
India’s settler colonialism – Nasim Zehra
Let there be no mistake. Pakistan is now confronted with the clear and present danger of India’s settler colonialism in the Kashmiri homeland. From...
Defence budget – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Myth number 1: Pakistan’s defence budget takes away a major chunk of the total budgetary resources. Not true. In Budget 2021-22, ‘Defence Services’ has...
Who might rule over us in 2023? – Shahzad Chaudhry
Or 2022, if you know what I mean. Assuming a normal run of events it is easy to conclude that the PPP blew its...
Is the HEC fiasco fixable? – Mosharraf Zaidi
Today (Tuesday, June 8), the honourable chief justice of the Islamabad High Court will listen to arguments for and against the legality of the...