Opinion

How Engineers, Designers and Architects fought the pandemic

Pakistan did miraculously well in fighting the first two waves of the corona pandemic. By the end of March 2021, 598,197 people had recovered...

What President Joe Biden and PM Imran Khan May share

In March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, almost eight months before the US November elections, Joe Biden, then one of the several presidential candidates, wrote...

India vs China: India calling for China’s Economic Boycott is only...

They don’t know what hit them! This is how India’s Energizer bunny anchor Arnab Goswami, in his prime-time live telecast on Republic TV, was...

Wuhan spirit breaks down: Will India learn that it cannot have...

In Jonathan Swift's 1738 farce "Polite Conversation," the character Lady Answerall says, "she cannot eat her cake and have her cake". A modern-sounding variant...

Pakistan Steel Mills: Sisyphean story of mismanagement, corruption & court interventions

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus – king of Ephyra – was punished by God Zeus to carry a massive boulder up a hill only to...

PM Imran Khan unleashes a dream: First CPEC SEZ takes off!

During his second visit to China in October 2019, PM Imran Khan had declared that CPEC phase-2 was the next big game and it...

FIEDMC: Flag carrier of public-private partnership in Pakistan

The successful ground-breaking of the Allama Iqbal Industrial City (AIIC), Pakistan’s first CPEC linked Special Economic Zone (SEZ), in the first week of January...

Pakistan Energy Mix: Overview of Gas Sector (Upstream)

Pakistan’s economy is known for its boom and bust cycles prevalent every five years. One of the major causes behind this is the mismanagement...

Implementation of Axle Load Limit Regime: When and How?

“No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come” – Victor Hugo On 24 October 2019, the Government of Pakistan suspended implementation...

Assam – National Register Citizens: Citizenship Defined through Religion?

It started at 9 am, and for the next six hours there was widespread blood-letting of men and women, the slaughter of young and...