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Dr Farrukh SaleemThe News International |
War has not ended in Afghanistan; it is taking a new form. The US is ending its ground military deployment but there will be no peace in Afghanistan....
In my considered opinion, the probability of a ‘political solution’ to the Afghan quagmire is low. In my considered opinion, the probability of a...
A bluff is “an attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something.” A policy is a “course or principle of action...
In the 18th century, uniformed soldiers fought wars with ‘massed manpower using line and column tactics’. A century later, second generation...
Tax hole: The budget shows ‘Tax Revenue (FBR) of Rs5,829 billion’. On May 29, the FBR told us that it has collected Rs4,143 billion in 11 months....
Basing rights? AMERICA has spent $2.26 trillion in Afghanistan in the longest war in America’s history-and not much to show for it. America is now...
Myth number 1: Pakistan’s defence budget takes away a major chunk of the total budgetary resources. Not true. In Budget 2021-22, ‘Defence...
Three years ago, the PTI Manifesto 2018, ‘The road to naya Pakistan’, made some two-dozen tax-related promises. The word ‘tax’ appears 43...
The Bajwa Doctrine THE Bajwa Doctrine 2021 is about one thing: Pakistan’s “march towards a new future”. The doctrine stands on four pillars:...
The government of Pakistan raised an estimated Rs1,500 billion to “address the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.” In March 2020, PM Imran...
Populism is the “political science of providing simple answers to complex questions.” Populism is a “thin-centered ideology that considers...
Economic growth depends on three things: accumulation of capital, human resources and technological advancement. Capital – including foreign direct...
A man-made disaster of gigantic proportions is in the making: the government of Pakistan, with more than four dozen cabinet members, forgot to...
There’s no team. There’s no vision. There’s no policy. How can there be any positive outcome for the country? Every project goes through four...
There can be no real economic growth without political stability. In an empirically-driven study, a “sample covering 169 countries, and five-year...
Over the past 32 months, the PTI government has spent Rs10 trillion more than the government’s income. That’s the budgetary deficit. The budgetary...
Asad Umar blamed the PML-N. Asad Umar lasted eight months. Hafeez Shaikh blamed Asad Umar. Hafeez Shaikh lasted 23 months. Now Shaukat Tareen is...
Is the PDM the real issue? Is the Senate election the real issue? For the 32 million, largely apolitical Pakistani families neither the PDM nor the...
Interest payments as a percentage of FBR taxes: In 2017, a mere four years ago, Pakistan’s total debt payment amounted to 39 percent of FBR taxes....
A total of 11 general elections over the past 48 years. Is the ‘system’ working? Have a look at the four ground realities. One, the 342-member,...
The power sector is the foundation of an economy. Red alert: Pakistan’s power sector – sans government subsidies – is bankrupt. The real culprit...
Lesson 1: Elections in Pakistan have become an intra-elite, medieval tribal war. An election was supposed to be a “formal group decision-making...
Economic policy is four actions that governments take in the economic field: tax, government spending, interest rates and money supply. Our national...
Gross Domestic Product: GDP is the “total value of everything produced in a country.” GDP is the mother of all economic indicators because it...
Political stability in China pulled out 850 million Chinese out of poverty where the percentage of Chinese living in extreme poverty fell from 88...
Our elected PM is playing with fire. The opposition is also playing with fire. In our PM’s political calculations, he will burn the opposition down....
‘Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era’, or in short ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ is a ‘set of policies and...
August 2018: Imran Khan took oath as the 22nd prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. August 2018 to January 2021: in a nutshell, here are...
The Washington Consensus comprises the United States Department of the Treasury, the World Bank and the IMF. The Washington Consensus is a set of...
PTI Manifesto 2018, ‘The Road to Naya Pakistan’, is one of the best election manifestos I have come across. In 61 pages, less than 650 sentences...
Non-issue number 1: Will the MNAs, MPAs and senators belonging to the PPP tender their resignations? Non-issue number 2: Will the PDM undertake a...
Here are six political ground realities. Reality 1: PM Imran Khan is convinced that his lifeline lies in conflict and confrontation – not in...
There’s no real blood on Pakistani streets but India is trying awfully hard to bleed Pakistan. There’s no real blood on Pakistani streets because...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the future of warfare. Who will win? The name of the new game is weaponization of AI – including lethal autonomous...
Zero-sum is a situation in game theory in which PM Imran Khan’s gain is equivalent to Mian Nawaz Sharif’s loss (and vice versa), so the net change...
The 18th century: First generation warfare was all about ‘massed manpower, uniformed soldiers using line and column tactics’. 19th century: The...
The China Model revolves around three things: political stability, meritocracy and good governance. The China Model has ‘political meritocracy’ as...
In science, a vacuum is ‘space devoid of matter’. In politics, inflation, unemployment and gross mis-governance create a political vacuum. Science...
Wheat: Our average per capita consumption is 115 kg per year for a total requirement of 26 million tons. This year’s target was 27 million tons and...
Pakistan’s ‘politics of polarisation’ is at its peak. Our political leaders are at each other's throats like never before. Our national...
The opposition must stop calling the prime minister ‘selected’. The opposition must accept the PTI’s legitimate right to rule. PM Imran Khan...
Politics and economics are inseparable. Economics and national security are also inseparable. The world over, the economy is the key political...
Who met whom, when and where? Who invited whom? What did they talk about? Did they talk about Maryam Nawaz? Will Mian Nawaz Sharif come back? Can the...
Pakistan is performing way, way below its full potential. Historically, Pakistan’s economy has been a high growth, low inflation economy. In 1954,...
Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) as a National Security Strategy (NSS) and as a National Development Strategy (NDS). This is what we need to learn from...
Karachi has been turned into a coalmine. Every day a new nexus between politics and crime comes in, digs in a new hole, takes away its share of coal...
PTI Manifesto 2018, ‘The Road to Naya Pakistan’, has promises, pledges, undertakings, assurances and commitments spread over 61 pages, 14,640...
Leech number 1: The electricity sector. In August 2018, when the PTI took over the reigns of the government, circular debt in the electricity sector...
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