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Shahid KardarDawn |
BUREAUCRATIC reforms have become essential, as a critical constraint today on the effective functioning of government is the budgetary and business...
WE continue to operate old systems of governance, with the government performing functions beyond what should be its staple role. The trend has been...
THE federation is now at stake. The bonds of national integration for a functioning federation are under severe stress. There is anger at the denial...
THE task of the country’s population has been reduced to keeping power sector entities afloat, by bearing unaffordable tariffs. And yet the...
IN an earlier article contributed by one of us in these columns it was argued that Pakistan is passing through a difficult phase, confronted by...
CONFRONTING a polycrisis mostly of its own making, the state’s governing capacity has gravely weakened and is wobbling between distress and failure....
THE provinces have become the favourite punching bag of Islamabad, donors and commentators. They are being chastised for failing to generate adequate...
A WIDELY held perception, if not an unshakeable belief, is that the energy sector presents an existential threat to Pakistan’s economy, with no...
THE future servicing of external and domestic debts has become a huge undertaking, having crimped our ability to even fund operational expenditures....
THE most challenging year in recent memory has closed with some indicators prognosticating a nascent economic rejuvenation of sorts. So, what lies in...