Mr Trump’s agenda should worry us if we care about democracy and rule of law
You see and hear this daily – the interactions of flora, and fauna as you ramble along the park’s grounds
Laissez-faire economics is no guarantor of rapid growth, and no cure for our urgent problems
Data tells that public investment has been falling since 2017 – the key marker of hopium
What does it mean to keep OGDCL and PPL on the privatization list?
The first thing is to build schools two kilometres apart on either side of the Indus
During January-March this year PTCL lost Rs4.8 billion, but before privatization, it was hugely profitable
Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Whitehead explains this best
It is. I say this because I think that as the stock market climbs by nearly 60 per cent in the past six months, its rise is not in sync with our...
Understanding the PPP’s leadership is a puzzle these days. Its impressive show in Quetta two days ago sent a strong message of unity.Yet, last...
World Children’s Day is usually an understated affair in our country. And its motto ‘for every child, every right’ is hardly taken seriously...
China's President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening ceremony of the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the Great Hall of...
The idea of the Charter of Economy has gained traction since the PPP began weighing on it. We don’t know yet the details nor the broad features of...
Selling state companies is a bad idea. But despite failing repeatedly in practice this idea has resurfaced in the 2023-24 budget proposals, which...
What should we make of the War of Liberation of 1857 whose 166th anniversary is today – May 10? Looked at from the side of the freedom fighters it...
Hafsa Khan – a Grade 9 student at Zoya Science School, Nala Khudadad – is our national Pi champion. Her record is reciting Pi correctly from...
Two Sundays ago, in the first round of presidential elections Brazilians gave a thumbs down to President Jair Bolsonaro, the ‘Trump of the...
Karl Marx’s ideas of public ownership of land, banks, enterprises and communications, progressive income tax, free education, economic planning,...
Each year towards the end of May we look to the Federal Bureau of Statistics to report the gross domestic product numbers, which is the official...
Modern China is in many ways a remarkable success: within a generation it has become a moderately high-income country from a low-income one. It has...
At a time when quantitative skills are vital for dealing with the pervasive use of data in our daily lives, the need for a vision of vibrant,...
The high-profile inauguration yesterday of the Data4Pakistan portal underlines the importance of official statistics. Naturally, it puts the focus...
On Pi Day, March 14 – a date that coincides with Pi’s best known value of 3.14 – I asked grade eight children what they knew of Pi. They...
Inequality in our country is now a lot worse than it has ever been in our history. The need to reduce inequality has been enshrined in Article 38...
Seven-year-old Samiullah solves simple arithmetic progressions in his head and reads texts that are recommended for twelve-year-old children. In my...
