Overseas Pakistani Friends

ZUBAIR FAISAL ABBASI
ARTICLE (March 31 2008): Economic globalisation affects both local and global systems of wealth creation and distribution. The effects can be witnessed in micro-realities of workers searching new modes of livelihoods to make for the lost ones while macro-realities are manifested in processes of stat industrialisation in many developing countries.

PRESIDENT Musharraf and Chancellor Metternich of the Austrian Habsburg empire have much in common. One of the most remarkable features the 19th-century European statesman and the 21st-century Pakistani leader share is that both saw themselves as unrivalled. Therefore they believed they must rule for as long as they wished.

FROM time immemorial people have been pondering over the meaning of life. Is my life worth living? Have we been wasting our time so far? How many questions are stirred by the state of the world? How many fears and doubts are aroused over the predicament that our country is confronted with?

THE grand coalition of democratic parties that has been voted into power has to work hard and in the right direction to reverse eight years of iniquitous, undemocratic and authoritarian policies.
The Musharraf regime plunged Pakistan into political turmoil and institutional decay, and gave rise to centre-province confrontation, a crippling energy crisis and a generally anarchic [...]

By Syed Imran Shah

OIL prices remain an important macroeconomic variable. Higher prices inflict substantial damage on the economies of oil-importing countries and the global economy as a whole. Oil importing developing countries like Pakistan generally suffer the most as their economies are more oil-intensive and less able to weather the financial turmoil wrought by higher [...]

KARACHI: The deficiency of iodine causes more than 30,000 stillbirths in Pakistan annually and 120,000 children are born mentally challenged due to the lack of iodine intake by expecting mothers.

ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority Development (CDA) is likely to approve Rs 57.2157 million for feasibility study of Sector I-15 in next Development Working Party (DWP) meeting.

PAKISTAN is about to witness once again the ‘dawn of democracy’ just as it had in the past at intervals of ten years or so only to make way for longer dictatorships. Sixty years of independence thus stand divided, almost equally, between the two.

Given the very nature of the job, governments cannot dwell on the past and presume success. They have to focus on the immediate while keeping an eye on the future

There are not many who would buy the theory that President Musharraf has willingly let himself be led into the situation he finds himself in. For all practical purposes, President Musharraf now stands in a corner instead of centre-stage. He has enjoyed the limelight for more than a decade now. It is a difficult time [...]