Pakistan’s indispensable Generalized Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+) status is under intense scrutiny. GSP+ is a special incentive for developing countries to pursue sustainable development and good governance in exchange for zero import duties on approximately two-thirds of their export tariff lines. For Pakistan, the EU remains its largest export destination, with this status allowing […]
perspective
Walking the streets with the Dahta
Walking the streets with the Dahta Lahore’s phosphorescent guts are blurred at night in November but in this night Jomay raat the Dahta walked in green neon and around his marble epitaph a thousand beggars begged in a unity insured by a complete selfishness only Hujwiri walked among them in wide-fingered benevolence; sight was […]
Pakistan in perspective: unwilling to learn
In the 1990s, a thirteen-year-old illiterate, Christian boy, Salamat Masih, was sentenced to death by a lower court in Pakistan (the conviction being reversed by the Lahore High Court eventually), for allegedly chalking anti-Islamic slogans on the wall of a Mosque. With the exception of Justice Arif Bhatti, Asma Jahangir and a handful of sane […]