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Sakib SheraniDawn |
Five-year bond to raise awareness of glacier melt, engaging with investors on ADB’s projects and programmes.
By endorsing sham austerity, IMF has failed its duty-of-care responsibility to Pakistanis.
Pakistanis have been crushed by fiscal austerity while the ruling elite has never had it better.
The NFC Award’s real failure is not its formula but the misgovernance of the ruling elite.
Pakistan’s current organising principle as a polity is incompatible with development.
Beyond the official hype, the economic reality of ordinary Pakistanis is dire.
South Asia needs peace, not another doctrine that further lowers the threshold of all-out war.
The US has championed free trade and benefited immensely, but has practised it selectively.
Instead of ‘hard state’ turning even harder, citizens deserve a state that goes soft on them in delivering democratic and development aspirations.
Pakistan’s tax regime is anti-growth and investment, anti-documentation and inequitable.