Archive for June, 2010
Formulating the budget by Mir Jamilur Rahman
1 June, 2010
Tuesday, June 01, 2010 Mir Jamilur Rahman What kind of a budget a country like Pakistan – which is under heavy foreign and domestic debt – could produce? According to estimates, every Pakistani citizen, regardless of his age, owes Rs60000 to the creditors. Whenever there is a change of government, we listen to promises of [...]
Talks about Talks
1 June, 2010Tariq Osman Hyder Relations between Pakistan and India have been beset by mistrust. The engagement of the 2004-2008 composite dialogue peace process was suspended following the November 2008 Mumbai terrorist incident. A restart was attempted when the Prime Ministers met in Sharm El-Sheikh in July 2009 but the Indian PM was unable to sustain that [...]
Pakistan’s nuclear self-belief
1 June, 2010Abu Rasikh Waseem Exactly 12 years ago, May 28 was pronounced as “Pakistan’s finest hour” by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when Pakistan detonated five nuclear devices in the Ras-Koh mountain range in Chaghai, in response to the Indian nuclear tests of May 11 and 13, 1998. This was, however, not the first time that India [...]
Political musical chair by Dr S. M. Rahman
1 June, 2010Dr S. M. Rahman A very ironic situation prevails in our political predicament (military vs. civilian rule – an alternating paradigm) which baffles as to who governs better, the military dictators or the civilian leaders, wearing a ‘democratic cloak’; however, inside they are power drunk despots. They masquerade as ‘elected representatives’ of the people, but [...]
Bigger say in price discovery
1 June, 2010MEI YUXIN China must focus its efforts on extracting a higher price for its exports at a time when global inflation is inevitable. Its lack of pricing power in fierce international trade has become the top concern at a time when export expansion is no longer seen as an overriding target in the country’s foreign [...]
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