The Shadow of Colonial Mentality on June 3, 2020Our country’s social fabric is being frayed by a myriad of socioeconomic ills. A key reason that accounts for the sorry state of affairs is the country’s deplorable failure to break the shackles of the colonial mindset, inherited at the time of independence. Colonial mentality represents the attitude of ethnic and cultural inferiority with the […]
Improving Pakistan’s ailing road infrastructure on May 8, 2020If Pakistan is to traverse into the 21st century along its roads, there is a significant possibility it will not make to it. The twists and turns, the highs and lows, and the bone-breaking lopsidedness of its roads are ensured to dispirit and stall even the most determined travelers. Developed roads, highways, bridges and ports […]
Restarting Pakistan’s economy on May 1, 2020The novel coronavirus has a few key attributes: it is new to mankind (so there is no developed immunity); it has a protracted asymptomatic period; it is extremely contagious, and there is, so far, no vaccination or treatment for it. These highlights have prompted a quick spread and comparatively high mortality rates. The absence of […]
Reforming the PFM system of Pakistan on April 23, 2020Around the world, an implicit social contract ties the state and its citizens. This social contract involves a commonly far-reaching and widely inclusive arrangement of rights and commitments. The state bears the constitutional responsibility for not only safeguarding the fundamental rights but ensuring the well-being of its citizens as well. Through a two-dimensional methodology, at […]
Why we cannot afford to ignore rural-urban linkages amidst COVID-19 pandemic on April 15, 2020In the last two decades, we have ordinarily experienced unprecedented growth in urbanisation. Due to the spiralling exodus from rural areas into urban suburbs in search of a more sustainable livelihood and career prospects, rampant unemployment and moderate levels of poverty continue to escalate in big cities. Over the years, changes in lifestyle, and financial […]
Receding democratic freedom on April 7, 2020Democracy no longer ends with a bang – in a revolution or military coup – but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, like the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political and democratic norms and freedom. In the present time, elected autocrats maintain a coating of democracy […]
As democratic freedom recedes on April 2, 2020A new report, “Freedom in the World Survey 2020” reflects that freedom is declining in established democracies including ours. Democracy no longer ends with a bang-in a revolution or military coup-but with a whimper due to the slow and steady weakening of critical institutions, like the judiciary and the media, and the gradual erosion of […]
Ramifications of US-China trade truce post coronavirus on March 15, 2020After two years of unprecedented trade friction, the US and China finally conceded on a much-awaited economic and trade accord in the mid of January. The lately concluded “phase one” trade deal, a prima facie rapprochement is an augur of stability in the global markets and is expected to normalise trade relations between the two […]
The Grueling challenges faced by the urban poor In Pakistan on March 6, 2020Developing countries are ordinarily experiencing burgeoning growth in urbanization. With the dilating exodus from rural areas into the urban suburbs, in an extensive search of better livelihood and career prospects, the modest levels of poverty and rampant unemployment continue to escalate in big cities. While generally contemplated less stringent than rural poverty, urban poverty typically […]
Spiraling global racist fear-mongering is more perilous than the coronavirus outbreak on March 2, 2020Since the time coronavirus (COVAD-19) surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan in mid-December 2019, it is perhaps the hottest potato in town. Public health officials throughout the world are struggling to confine this epidemic from mutating into a full-fledged global pandemic. While the public health authorities have been inevitably attending the clinical dimensions of […]