Yasser Latif Hamdani in this article delves into Pakistan’s constitutional history to prove how Pakistan has historically favoured the parliamentary system but even parliamentary regimes have had traits of a presidential system. “More importantly, however, ...
Reliable statistics are not only important for estimating poverty, unemployment or GDP, they are also critical for strategic insights, but the successive governments in Pakistan have failed to recognise either, says Business Recorder in a ...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair thinks politicians are hopelessly unprepared for the next Industrial Revolution and says he wants to convince leaders in technology and politics to rewrite the social contract for the digital ...
Veteran journalist Rashed Rahman sits down with Miranda Husain for an exclusive interview for Naya Daur. This is the first of the three-part interview. Rashed Rahman is a veteran editor and journalist, intellectual and committed ...
Misbah U. Azam crunches some numbers from the past to prove why Pakistan’s alleged economic growth under Presidential/dictatorial regimes was largely due to the influx of dollars into the economy instead of better economic management ...
Muhammad Ziauddin dives deep into the Hafiz Pasha Report which highlights the shortcomings in the implementation of the 18th amendment and concludes that planning process ought to change fundamentally. “It should become a ‘bottom-up’ process, ...
The Prime Minister has announced a Special Package for Karachi in the fields of Public Transport and Water and Sewerage in Public private partnership mode. This has been happening before whenever the Federal Government is ...
In this article, Muhammad Ziauddin explains why Pakistan cannot be compared with any of the Asian Tigers that we so want to emulate. He argues that acknowledging the country’s diversity is the key to fixing ...
Former Foreign Secretary and Chairman Institute of Rural Management Dr Humayun Khan is discussing the need to focus rural development in Pakistan. I belong to a rapidly diminishing generation whose adult years are coterminous with ...
In this article, Durdana Najam highlights the steps taken in the anti-quackery drive in Punjab since the establishment of Punjab Healthcare Commission in 2012 and the measures that government still needs to take in this ...