Dr Pervez Tahir
The writer is a political economist with a PhD from Cambridge. He served as the Chief Economist at the Planning Commission of the Government of Pakistan. He is presently a columnist at Express Tribune.
Opinion
To Fix The Economy, Pakistan Must Learn To Save And Invest
This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. The Achilles heel of Pakistan’s economy is the failure to institute stable and sustained economic growth. There is a mad rush to growth for a...
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Opinion
How To Improve Pakistan’s...
In the late 1960s and the 1970s, the Green Revolution in Pakistan increased agricultural production by introducing hybrid...
News
F-9 Park Rape: ‘Criminal...
ISLAMABAD: On February 2nd, a woman was raped in F-9 Park in Islamabad while she was with her male...
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Another PTI Social Media...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) social media activist has gone missing in Karachi, a day after another party's activist returned home...
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‘Her Legacy Lives On’:...
Human rights icon Asma Jahangir is being remembered on her 5th death anniversary, with the members of civil society...
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Family Of Baloch Woman...
The family of a Baloch woman, who was allegedly abducted by the law enforcers last month from her home...
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To ‘Reimagine Pakistan’, Abandon...
The reforms that a lot of people have proposed under the “Reimagining Pakistan” program are fine, but they are...
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Human Rights
Pakistan’s Civic Freedoms Deteriorate Amid Crackdown on Dissent: Report
ISLAMABAD - Civic freedoms in Pakistan have deteriorated amid a widening crackdown on activists,...
Human Rights
Pakistan Police Arrest 17 at Islamabad Aurat March on Women’s Day
Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on...
Extremism watch
Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...
Opinion
How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...