Pakistan's manufacturing sector reels from a multitude of external and self-inflicted setbacks. Cotton, textiles, ghee, automobiles, sugar, cement, fertiliser…
The performance of Pakistan's corporate manufacturing
Even while the India-Pakistan treaty for sharing the Indus waters remains operational, the provinces of Pakistan are squabbling. Mostly, it is Sindh vs. Punjab.
Amidst the many political problems
Despite shared expectations to the contrary, transboundary water sharing comes relatively easy to India and Pakistan — providing a sign of hope that a good treaty can bridged troubled waters.
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Pakistan's nationalised banks are being privatised and are providing better service. They are also mounting a strong challenge to foreign banks.
Even though Pakistan's economy remains
Pakistan's response to the WTO has been a schizophrenic blend of servile compliance, antagonistic rhetoric and general confusion. Proponents and opponents know not what they talk about.
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The expansion of the 1970s and 1980s concealed the structural weaknesses of the Pakistani political economy, which are responsible for today's stagnation in growth and the payments crisis.
The two-nation theory is used as a form of social control by Pakistan's elite.
The single most important event in Pakistani his tory is the secession of
Two countries that cannot even play soccer propose to nuke each other, and we are all supposed to sit back and enjoy the show. At least they could hold the
Jawaharlal Nehru would have been shocked. His daughter Indira would have been outraged. Rajiv Gandhi would have been paralysed. But the person in charge of carrying forward the Nehru-Gandhi
If we had a clearer picture of how India changed after independence, we might have a better sense of where it is going today. But how to encompass half a century's history of hundreds of millions of people? Like a geologist analysing cross-sections of strata to understand how rock was formed and wha
As a Muslim, Farid Alvie finds himself constantly having to clarify that he is a "moderate", knowing that there is just that hint of disbelief that any of
