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Dr Shujjat Ahmed

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Pakonomics: lived reality not fiction

Pakonomics encircles harmonic disorder of Pakistan's economic system, whose dysfunctional components synchronise and produce a vulnerable future,...

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The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Vanity, prisoner's dilemma and the logic of conflicts

The Prisoner's Dilemma, from game theory, illustrates why two rational individuals may fail to cooperate even when it serves their best...

22.07.2026 30

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Pakistan's Promised Prosperity Is A Castle In Air

Pakistan's persistent economic failures mirror political and governance dysfunction. It has become a fact deepened by our national fallacy of...

27.04.2026 40

The Friday Times

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

OIC members' dismal existence

Pitiful. The Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) member states fixated on past, often blame external actors for their troubles, have lost...

01.04.2026 50

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Fasting humbles ego, enables mindfulness and divine nearness

Hunger is a common denominator felt by all life forms to ensure survival and nourishment. At extreme end of hunger and fullness, humans and animals...

02.03.2026 40

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Beyond the limits of human perception

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) undertook a night journey from Mecca in Arabia to Jerusalem (Isra), then ascended to the heavens (Miraj) and back before dawn....

03.02.2026 50

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Pakistan's tragedy and salvation lie in whispers

Adding this aspect reveals that Pakistan's menaces are cognitively driven by whispers of self-interest. Its outcome demands somber reflection - to...

23.10.2025 70

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Pakistan's self-inflicted agricultural decay

The "First cause" of agricultural ailment is embedded in a feudal ecosystem defined by unviable subsistence farming on millions of fragmented,...

24.09.2025 250

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Tax opacity and GDP disconnect: feudal immunity, sectoral aversion

Taxes hold a paradox: paying them breeds resentment toward system; evading them makes system resent you. There is no escape. Ancient Egypt (3000 BCE)...

26.08.2025 70

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Unseeing warning signs: choosing fatal outcomes?

Jinnah saw a macabre future for his founded refuge for some Muslims of India; not only has it come to pass, worse still lies ahead. No words can...

07.08.2025 70

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Jinnah foresaw a grim future for Pakistan

Pakistan, born from majority-Hindu apathy, now suffers majority-Muslim ethnic apathy, a tragic comedy. Durkheim (1858), founder of modern sociology,...

22.07.2025 150

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Freedom from eternal Hindu scorn? Paradox of Jinnah's Pakistan

The irony of Pakistan's birth is this: the people who would inhabit its land never truly allowed to escape possessive identities, the ancient curse of...

23.06.2025 70

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed

Ancient curse and Raj's paranoiac architecture eclipse future Pakistan

One ought to remain optimistic about the future, for living in despair is neither noble nor productive. Yet, Pakistan suffers from what I call a...

22.05.2025 30

The Express Tribune

Dr Shujjat Ahmed