An ideal caretaker government on May 13, 2018There are a lot of rumours going around about the caretakers and the likely candidates. Before deciding on this, we need to be clear on what role do we expect them to play. Do we plan to use them to organise clean and transparent elections? Or do we want them to fight corruption and take […]
Criminal exploitation of Balochistan II on November 8, 2015The exploitation of Balochistan is not confined to minerals, stones and fuel reserves only. The province has very fertile land and grows top quality fruits and vegetables. Rich countries and their companies are targeting Balochistan’s agriculture as well. Recently, the Pakistan Agriculture and Cold Chain Development (PACCD), a subsidiary of Winrock International, a US NGO […]
Criminal exploitation of Balochistan I on November 7, 2015According to the resource curse literature, resource-abundant countries or regions have lower rates of growth as compared to resource-scarce countries or regions. Different explanations have been given to explain the phenomenon. The ‘Dutch disease’ explanation derives its name from the Dutch economy’s poor growth performance after the discovery of oil in that country. This low […]