Brigadier Asad Munir’s suicideThe circumstances under which former ISI official Brigadier (retd) Asad Munir apparently committed suicide on Friday morning must be thoroughly investigated by the police and judiciary. Only a day bef...
Economy bluesThe Pakistani economy continues to slip. On Friday, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported that foreign direct investment (FDI) had fallen by 41 percent to $168.8 million in February. At the same t...
Taxes for prosperous Pakistan“The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me; it has its origins way back in time. For example, the Muslim philosopher Ibn Khaldun wrote in his fourteenth-century work The Muqaddimah: It shou...
Ready for revolution?Dr Muhammad Iqbal Lahori was one of the architects of the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Iqbal's poetry in 'Farsi' inspired the generation that stood up against the Shah. Dr Ali Shariati picked up from w...