Small manufacturers start making candles, generators, UPS etc Nafees Tahir LAHORE: The unending loadshedding was giving rise to a new form of cottage industry which was producing scores of goods to counter the power outages. Loadshedding, though, has adversely affected the big industries, yet it helped small industry to grow. Like Unlike

NOW that the elections are over the next step is to think about what the political parties will do next. There is a need for institutionalising politics and improving the overall health of state institutions so that they could support strengthening of democracy in the country. Like Unlike

By Kuldip Nayar IF you want to assess a country’s progress you should pick up the poorest from among the people and see how far he has gone up the ladder, so said Mahatma Gandhi. The budget session of parliament, in progress, is a stock-taking exercise, not of economy alone but of other fields as [...]

KARACHI, Feb 28: Fatima Bhutto, daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, does not think the “new parliament can bring any hope of good governance to people” and believes the coalition of Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari is destined to be very short. Like Unlike

DR A.H. KHAYAL When the results of the February 18 elections were out, the supporters of the victorious parties went mad with jubilations. They started dancing and singing. They hugged each other like the lovers meeting after years of separation. Like Unlike

One of the most unfortunate lingering ironies of the Pakistani political culture is that a segment of its ruling establishment and elite has remained permanently locked in the colonial mentality of subservience to the powers that-be. Whereas the majority of the masses has moved to a democratic mindset, a formidable number of reactionary politicians, mostly [...]

The US Secretary of State came out behind a demoralised Musharraf on Saturday, February 23, before embarking on a three nation tour of Asia. She was corroborated by Mr Amin Fahim, the Prime Minister in waiting who, before going to Murree for a meeting with Mian Nawaz Sharif, said to a question on the president’s [...]

M.A. Niazi The most pressing question that has developed for the new National Assembly is not so much what is to be the shape of the new government when it is to be formed, though that is the only question it should properly answer, as what is to be the fate of the president. This [...]

Special Correspondent WASHINGTON – In an apparent policy shift, the US administration distanced itself from President Pervez Musharraf, saying it is supporting Pakistan’s people as they choose their leaders after last week’s parliamentary elections. Like Unlike