Abdul Basit Khan

  PAKISTAN’S governance crisis is often explained in remarkably simple terms: the bureaucracy is inefficient, corrupt, resistant to reform and responsible for administrative failure. There…

  PAKISTAN is once again debating creation of more provinces. The demand is neither new nor entirely without merit. In a country of more than…

  PAKISTAN has spent decades discussing economic growth without addressing the structural weaknesses that repeatedly pull the economy back into crisis. Whenever growth begins to…

An equally important question is whether political parties actually implement the electoral programmes on which they seek votes. In every election campaign, parties make ambitious…

  WE frequently quote the sayings of the great Quaid-i-Azam. We make speeches in front of his portraits, listen to accounts of his life and…

  As Pakistan approaches another Independence Day, the familiar celebrations will once again fill our streets with flags, lights, national songs and speeches. Yet Independence…

THE contrast between Barack Obama’s and Donald Trump’s approaches towards Iran reflects two competing schools of American foreign policy. Obama believed that diplomacy should come…

  WATER scarcity and climate change have emerged as two of the greatest threats to Pakistan’s food security. The challenge is not simply a shortage…

  Corruption is often described as a moral failure, but its consequences extend far beyond ethics. It remains one of the greatest barriers to economic…

  EVERY age has its own grammar of war. The weapons, strategies and technologies that define one era are often replaced by new instruments of…