By Aftab Ahmad Khan Inflation, which is a phenomenon with momentous economic, social and political consequences, may be broadly defined as a sustained increase in the general price level. It may, however, be noted that all prices need not rise together. Relative prices may increase at varying levels, but in the process push up the [...]

The way PPP and PMLN have handled, or mishandled, the judges’ issue and the resultant thirty days’ deadline is perhaps the biggest example of political opportunism in Pakistan. PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PMLN Chief Nawaz Sharif met in Murree on March 09, 2007 and signed the famous Bhurban Accord. Recommend on Facebook Tweet [...]

Concerns about proliferation of nuclear weapons to rogue States and their possible use by terrorists, has been increased since September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Since then, the administration has updated the U.S National Security Strategy (NSS) against WMD by declaring that nuclear weapons may be used in response to Chemical and Biological threats and has [...]

By Haider Nizamani FOR the MQM leader Altaf Hussain and Ayesha Siddiqa, ‘feudalism’ is alive and kicking in Pakistan. According to the MQM’s 2008 election manifesto “the prevalent feudal system of (sic) Pakistan is the main obstacle in the progress of the country and the prosperity of the people”. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it [...]

IF you nurtured a nest of snakes in your backyard, would you be surprised if the snakes slipped through the fence or underneath the doors and bit your neighbours and friends? Apparently, if you were one of this country’s foreign policy mandarins, you would be. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments [...]

THE primary responsibility of a modern state is the promotion of the welfare of its people in a peaceful atmosphere which is free of fear and coercion and in which the citizens can fully realise their God-given potential. Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend

A mature democracy is a system in which the ruling elites can get away with everything. By implication, an amateur democratic system is where the ruling elites can get away with many things but still remain vulnerable to certain mass uprising Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell [...]

Twenty-five years ago, London casinos were crowded with the newly rich, and were raking in the moolah. But that golden period is certainly over, though I don’t suppose the wrath of God is to be visited upon such dens of inequity anytime soon Recommend on Facebook Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this [...]