Why the Rupee Keeps Faltering
The message is clear: stop blaming the dollar or the IMF. The rupee’s weakness is a mirror of our own failures. It’s time to demand better: better governance, smarter policy and a relentless focus on productivity.
Justice Not For All
And yet, those consequences fall squarely on the shoulders of the litigant. A faulty ruling can cost them property, liberty, livelihood or all three. But the system takes no note. No one is held responsible for the ruin of a life.
Sugar Import: Privatising the Profits, Socialising the Losses
The actual policy failure lies in the restriction on free trade.
Keepers of Civilisation
Every sane individual understands that the world’s civilisations are currently engaged in a strenuous struggle. They are, quite literally, working on a war footing to keep their individual identities intact within this rapidly shrinking global village.
Wealth Tax is a Bad Idea
Economists and academics continually seek innovative tax ideas. Led by international financial institutions (IFIs) and their consultants, the prevailing goal in many studies is to tax everything in sight.
The Tyranny of Sugar
And to remind ourselves: this is not about sugar but justice. Because in this country, sugar is no longer a commodity. It is a crime.
Rethinking Charity in Pakistan
We are a nation of givers. Now let us become a nation of enablers, of dreams, of dignity and of opportunity.
Mentorship, not Lone Geniuses, Fuels Entrepreneurial Success
While individual successes are often celebrated as strokes of genius, economists increasingly agree that entrepreneurship is seldom a solo endeavour. The romanticised image of the lone maverick entrepreneur, they argue, is largely a myth.
Pakistan’s Wheat Market at a Crossroads: a Call for Rational Liberalization
Only by removing ad hoc interventions and empowering market forces can Pakistan build a sustainable wheat economy—one where all stakeholders have a fair stake and where food security is driven by efficiency rather than distortion.
Company and Imitation
It is better to suffer with good men than to enjoy a feast with the wicked—or as a Spanish proverb says, it is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.