You cant finance away bad policy thinking on August 10, 2017Reagan deregulation created a romance with finance. My generation of educated Pakistanis benefited from it greatly — even gave us a Prime Minister. The romance with finance still plays strongly in Pakistani political/administrative and intellectual class. We look to finance our way out of things. Every government runs after money. Bureaucrats are trained to look […]
Changing myths requires consultation II on July 16, 2017Raza Rumi argued recently that there are 5 myths in the Pakistani discourse that need to be put to rest. In his view these are the ‘Doctrine of Necessity,’ ‘Strategic depth,’ ‘Use of Proxies’, ‘Ummah’ and ‘China will fix all’. Raza is right. A large part of our media and intellect is discussing these myths. […]