A Stanford academic, Twitter, and Pakistan’s exports
We need to increase Pakistan’s exports, and it doesn’t quite matter where we approach the problem from
Not just birds and bees, also dollars and rupees
For women the concept of earning a steady income and eventually making smart investments for one’s personal self has never been a question worth addressing.
Why Jeffrey Sachs is wrong about Reko Diq
It started with the usual leftie / “anti-imperialism is the ultimate moral good” crowd. An article written by American economist Jeffrey Sachs provocatively titled...
Imran Khan: Build governance, discontinue Raja Rule
For too long we have had arbitrary government run by elected rajas who personalized governance without due process, record-keeping or transparency. One lasting legacy...
Pakistan’s second war on terror
Pakistan’s second war on terror is becoming more violent and more complex over the last few months. With security personnel facing attacks on an...
Efficiency and the rise of the BJP in India
The core has been efficient service delivery supported by a hyper-focused grassroots mobilization
An all you need to know guide for how to reopen large businesses
The do's and the don'ts
The meaning of culture
“I came to see during my time at IBM that culture is not just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In...
An annoying blend of oddities!
Commercial business activity, encompassing all economic and monetary pursuits, from delivering a newspaper to managing a multimillion rupee company in Pakistan, is perhaps like...
How do consultants, donors and Pakistani ministries solve problems?
The flood of 2010 showed me (I was Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commision then) how dysfunctional policy was in Pakistan and yet how...
The mechanics of privatisation
We hear the same things over and over again. You can open the headlines from half a century ago and they will scream of...
DMing for price and praying at Data Sahib
There is much to talk about this week, beginning with the classic question of why instagram stores insist on having you “DM for price.”...
Our manufacturing opportunity
For the last 5 months, I have undertaken the arduous task of renovating my home. Much to the discomfort of family members, I have...
TikTok is a data collection service pretending to be a social network
Instead of banning it every few months, the PTA needs to come up with a proper censorship framework
“No, I don’t see myself in your seat in 5 years time”
Growing up in the 70s, whenever we were asked what we would like to do as an adult, the very obvious response would be...
