Agartala: Reviving the Conspiracy in 2024 on August 9, 2024The political journey of the daughter of Shiekh Mujib and the longest-serving Bangladeshi PM – Sheikh Hasina, took a sharp turn when she landed in India – the country that actively participated in the bifurcation of Pakistan in 1971; after she was forced to resign after days of violent student protests across the country. It […]
Reconstructing Narratives: A Critical Analysis of the Operation Swift Retort on February 27, 2024On February 14, 2019, a convoy of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel was targeted in Pulwama, Occupied Kashmir, resulting in the deaths of nearly 40 reserves. The aftermath of the attack witnessed a rapid escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan. Accusations were levelled, threats hurled, and that finally culminated in an airstrike in […]
Is Debt Restructuring a Panacea? on June 3, 2023The world has experienced a progressive increase in foreign debt liabilities in the recent decade, with unforeseen consequences for certain borrowing countries. Among them include sluggish economic growth, grave debt issues, and stock market volatility, especially in low-income countries. Unsustainable debt is causing countries to default like Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The debt is easily […]
Can ChatGPT Replace Human Workers? on March 17, 2023Artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of fascination for many years. The emergence of new technologies and machines with the ability to communicate and understand human language has paved the way for a new era of intelligent systems. One such AI tool that has been making waves in recent times is ChatGPT. But what […]
Pakistan and the IMF: An Enduring Relationship on February 25, 2023Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have had a long and complicated relationship, spanning several decades. Since the country’s inception, Pakistan has had to repeatedly turn to the IMF for financial assistance to deal with various economic challenges. Since then, the country has received 23 loan programs from the IMF. However, the IMF’s interventions […]
The Accumulation of Capital is made of eight major portions with component chapters on September 3, 2021The economic analysis began with Adam Smith’s “the nature and causes of the wealth of nation”, which run the world economy for up to a 100 years. Then Keynes’s General theory rescued economics from the infertility of the classical world. But economists were conscious of a more general theory that bring long-term changes in population, […]
Governing The Ungovernable — addressing core questions on March 26, 2021When a person performs any task, some questions arise in his or her mind. That is why I am doing this job? And how am I going to do it? In the book, the author addresses some W-H questions. As a development economist, Dr Ishrat spent 20 years with the world bank. He began his […]