Dr Usman W Chohan

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is an ultranationalist regime that has taken the reins of power in India on the basis of a self-proclaimed role to promote Hindutva. This self-professed obligation would bind them to some form of adherence to the basic concepts of the Hinduism, would it not? One phenomenon that is found […]

In both the Islamic and Western traditions, ‘economists’ were originally considered to be a category of moral philosophers. For example, Ibn-Khaldun was as much a moral thinker and historian as he was a forerunner to the Western tradition that arose from Adam Smith and David Ricardo, who had keenly read the medieval Islamic literature in […]

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has recently proposed a measure that is intriguing, to say the least. It has announced a “whistleblower” incentive, by which any person who reports a tax evader may receive 20% of the proceeds from any recoveries that the FBR makes on the accused person. At first glance, one would […]

The FATF and its mirror-body APG have begun to tighten the noose around Pakistan, and their most recently revealed report card (The Mutual Evaluation Report, MER), presents a mixed opinion about the steps Pakistan has taken since its grey-listing last year. In its own words, “competent authorities have varying levels of understanding of the country’s […]

On August 1 of every year, there is an acutely painful and profoundly emotional moment that is commemorated in Warsaw, Poland. At 5 o’clock in the afternoon, everything in the city comes to a halt, the people freeze in place where they stand, and a silence enshrouds every corner of the city. But a few […]