Tag: Shehbaz Sharif
Battered
Years of neglect and lack of infrastructure cost Pakistan heavily during the torrential rains during monsoon
The General’s Battle
The new chief of the armed forces will have to wage war of another kind
Elusive India-Pakistan Peace
South Asia’s problems are aggravated by the complex regional configuration with growing Indo-US nexus and India’s resultant strategic ascendancy in the region with an unprecedented influence in Afghanistan and serious nuisance potential against Pakistan’s security interests
A Long Journey to Nationhood
Pakistanis are celebrating the golden jubilee of their independence in an economically precarious, politically fractured and socially decayed society, but we have a future and can build it
Path to Economic Sovereignty
In the wake of Pakistan’s ‘worst economic crisis’, 25 eminent economic and energy experts and professionals write an open letter to politicians and decision-makers, urging for energy-sector reforms on a war-footing
Reshaping Pakistan
The days immediately after independence may not have been ideal for strengthening the roots of democracy, what befell the country in the subsequent decades has been harrowing
The Real Populists of Pakistan
"In war, truth is the first casualty," wrote Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy. Theodore Dalrymple, the English cultural critic, built on it further,...
Economic journey
When the Soviet Union collapsed it had enormous resources at its disposal with economic and nuclear power and military might. The countries that emerged...
The Economic Bluff
Though all agree that the economy is a disaster, opinion is divided about who is responsible. Imran Khan supporters propagate that it was the...
Punjab & the Mockery of Democracy
‘Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with Chaos’. Will Durant.How do you manufacture a suicide bomber? A question I have often...