How to stabilize Pakistan’s economy?
Pakistan approached International Monetary
Fund for 13th time since 1988 to get a bail-out. This programme is
touted as a recipe to `reduce Pakistan’s public debt’...
How Muslim caste-structure in India has impeded their economic progress?
Modi 2.0 slogan `sab ka vishwas’
(all inclusive) caricatures ongoing persecution of the Muslim in India. In
post-election India, the Muslim is being `lynched, shot at...
Will Islamophobes take over democracies in the West?
One is alarmed to see how Islamophobes have
begun to dominate secular forces in `civilized’ western democracies. During the
2008 American presidential election `several Republican politicians...
Could Pakistan be a China?
It is naïve for Pakistan government to
play China model overnight. China resents its history of humiliation at eh
hands of foreign powers (forcible take-over of...
Which system suits Pakistan: Democracy or technocracy?
General Zia
was enamored of the presidential system. He claimed that the Quaid-i-Azam had
opted for this system in a note in his diary. What was...
India’s Saffronised economics: Burgeoning Sino-Indian trade amid China-boycott calls
It appears
Indian economics, too, is getting radicalised. Aside from shady efforts to
isolate Pakistan under FATF, India is furious at China also. India tried to
boycott...
India’s purblind opposition to Belt and Road Initiative
China intends to host
second global Belt-Road-Initiative (BRI) meet next month. China expects delegates
from over 100 countries to attend the moot. The initiative has become...
Kashmir: Will Modi accept Pakistan’s Khan’s talks offer?
Once again Pakistan’s prime minister has
welcomed India to talk about the Kashmir dispute.
He had earlier advocated a Good-Friday
(Ireland)-like solution of the dispute. While...
Back to IMF: Whither Pakistan’s Medina Model
Pakistan has
been availing International Monetary Fund loan packages without stricto
sensuo acting upon reforms since late 1980s. Its finance minister is now
horn-locked with the International...
Pakistan’s foreign-office view of Article 370: A faux pas
In his weekly press briefing, Pakistan foreign-office director general (South Asia and SAARC) Dr. Mohammad Faisal said (April 6, 2019), “Pakistan will never accept...