S. Akbar Zaidi
First wreck the economy, then its people...
Published 11 Feb, 2020 07:07am
This financial year will be the worst in over a decade in terms of how it affects the working people of Pakistan.
Updated 14 Jul, 2019 07:16am
Rest assured, Pakistan’s economy is going to be severely constrained over the next few years.
Updated 18 May, 2019 07:30am
The rupee is losing value every other day, adding to inflation, and will depreciate a great deal more.
Updated 08 Apr, 2019 10:05am
The hallmark of PTI’s economic plan in the last five months has been continued uncertainty and ambiguity.
Updated 31 Dec, 2018 08:03am
A new order of accommodation and compromise is replacing free speech and dissent.
Published 01 Dec, 2018 06:55am
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
