S. Akbar Zaidi
The expected tough conditionality will have a serious impact on the PTI’s populist promises.
Updated 10 Nov, 2018 10:22am
Local, real-life issues seem to trump broader issues, supposedly related to principles or ideology.
Published 23 Jul, 2018 07:09am
Many elected and civilian groups have continued to raise their voice in a public space which is heavily manipulated.
Updated 25 Jun, 2018 01:39pm
Pakistani nationalism needs to be interrogated through its multiple variants to understand what it is.
Updated 07 May, 2018 09:09am
The list in this article is just a powerful indication of the breadth, scope and depth of the scholarship of Pakistani
Published 22 Jan, 2018 06:58am
Imran Khan has given the liberals hope and much-needed reaffirmation.
Updated 12 Dec, 2017 12:22pm
It is clear that the classification used in our census for ‘rural’ is wrong.
Published 29 Aug, 2017 07:17am
We can even sometimes have a civilian opinion on a pressing issue.
Published 12 Jul, 2017 07:25am
What looks like poverty is actually inequality.
Updated 01 Oct, 2018 01:20pm
New research on the Muhammad Bin Qasim narrative reveals the misassumptions with which generations have been raised
Published 15 Jan, 2017 08:22am
THE victors who climbed the heights of Kargil and who gave Pakistan visions as divergent as those based on...
Published 03 May, 2014 07:28am
UNTIL around sometime in 2007, the question ‘which is the strongest institution in Pakistan?’ was always met...
Published 05 Apr, 2014 07:13am
OF COURSE, this is an absurd question. How on earth could the Taj Mahal ‘be Pakistani’ and claim a nationality...
Updated 01 Mar, 2014 08:05am
There is an urgent need for the government to rethink its steam-rolling project of privatisation.
Updated 01 Feb, 2014 12:19pm
THERE is little disagreement on the suggestion that Pakistan needs many more provinces than the existing four (five,...
Published 11 Jan, 2014 07:23am
ECONOMISTS know about what they call ‘market failure’ as well as ‘government failure’ in a situation where...
Updated 20 Aug, 2013 07:50am
SOON after the 1998 census results were made public, Reza Ali, an urban planner and researcher from Lahore, wrote a...
Published 05 Aug, 2013 07:25am
AN argument doing the rounds suggests that a ‘right-wing wave’ has swept Pakistan’s recent general elections....
Published 24 May, 2013 05:54am
IN a rare moment of bold, honest, reflection, on Dec 24, members of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Finance, which included at least one prominent PPP member, demanded the resignation of
Published 31 Dec, 2012 03:48am
AT the recently concluded 28th annual general meeting and conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists, organised by what is now the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Published 30 Nov, 2012 09:02pm
