Desperate times, desperate measures on May 24, 2019Prime Minister Imran Khan’s promise of making Pakistan a welfare state – he likes to call it riyasat-i-medina – is commendable. Prof Hossein Askari, an academic at the George Washington University, has developed an Islamic City Index to rate states in order of their adherence to Islamic doctrines and teachings. In the 2017 rankings, only […]