Imran Shauket

I am a son of a bureaucrat and hail from a bureaucratic family. My father retired as a Federal Secretary, sister as an Additional Secretary,…

GEN Z has emerged as a major force for change in the past few years. They seem to be unstoppable when they get going and…

THE other day, out of the blue, someone asked where I was on September 11, 2001. I was in Bangladesh at the time and enjoying…

AS humans, we can take no credit for our religion. We were not given a choice to be born into any particular religion. Hence, whether…

THE tumultuous developments in the South Asian region have brought to light numerous challenges as well as unlocked new opportunities within the region. Arguably, the…

Recently, I had the opportunity to be a panelist on a show. The topics of discussion were “investment opportunities” and “economic empowerment” for Pakistan. Every…

PAKISTAN can only progress if it expands its current export oriented business sectors. Additionally, and more importantly, it needs to create new foreign exchange earning…

SOMEONE recently asked, “Why is Gandhara important to Buddhism?” The thought behind the query perhaps was “Why are you promoting Pakistan’s Buddhist Heritage to the…

IN not too distant past, the trouble children of the world community – some would call them pariahs — used to be Pakistan and Iran.…

AT a recent event in Bangkok organized to showcase activities undertaken in the past decade to promote Pakistan-Thailand bilateral people-to-people ties, tourism and investment, I…