Improving Pakistan’s global image on August 18, 2018Saying that Pakistan has a bad image is an understatement. Read any news item published in any foreign newspaper. All you will find are reports about Pakistanis involved in honour killings, child labour, domestic violence, financial scandals or drug trafficking. Furthermore, our expatriates have also not been able to build a positive image of the […]
Conquering Afghanistan – a tale of failure on June 23, 2018Saying that Afghanistan has been a graveyard of foreign empires is one of the most persistent myths of Afghan history. It has been accepted by everyone as a gospel truth without even taking a cursory look at history – whether ancient or modern. Six thousand years ago, this region was part of Indus Valley Civilisation. […]
The sad story of the Pakistani farmer on June 4, 2018A Pakistani farmer is an unfortunate figure. The state treats him as a second-class citizen thanks to the increasing power of the urbanites to formulate policies and allocate resources. On the other hand, industrialists consider him just a milking cow meant for providing the raw material for their industries at less than market prices but […]
Comparing the railways in India and Pakistan on May 4, 2018It has become quite fashionable in Pakistan to compare every sector of the country with its respective Indian counterpart and start lamenting that every state institution in Pakistan is woefully deficient in terms of service delivery, profitability, efficiency, customer satisfaction etc., while everything is far better in every institution of India. Presently, Pakistan Railways is […]
E-governance for a better Pakistan on April 12, 2018Digital governance or digitisation of public sector by using technology to provide government services online is now one of the standard tools of statecraft even in the developing countries. There are some good reasons to believe that digital governance can and has resulted in better service delivery. In addition to improving governance through greater transparency […]
Agricultural policy for Pakistan on March 28, 2018Pakistan Muslim League will be completing its constitutionally mandated five-year term in the 2nd quarter of the current year. Notwithstanding their better than average performance in the economic management of the country, it was a bleak period for the farmers of the country. No doubt, the manifesto of PML-N published during the election campaign 2013 […]