Overseas Pakistani Friends

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 general price level. Cyclical swings in prices cannot be termed as inflationary e.g. wheat shortfalls in one season may cause its price to rise but the next year normal production could adjust its price to equilibrium level. Continue reading »

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. Continue reading »

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”. Continue reading »

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. Continue reading »

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 Continue reading »

While the nation continues to watch the “back and forth” drama over the restoration of the judges issue, increasingly aware of where it will all end; and while the poor look beyond the judicial issue to the basics of survival in the face of rising costs of staple food and utilities; Continue reading »