April 2020

Law and Policing in the Era of Covid In a constitutional democracy, the law and policing are intertwined. Every action of the police must be backed by law. The law, therefore, has to provide enabling legal framework to empower, with safeguards, police to perform their evolving functions. In the context of Covid-19, new challenges have emerged for policing. Predominantly, police …

Introducing tax measures to make taxation system equitable and efficient Promoting equity Equity is one of the golden principles of taxation policy. Many empirical and non-empirical research studies have identified pivotal role of equity in taxation to optimize societal welfare. Equity ensures taxation of real income on progressive basis. It is of two types: horizontal and vertical.

Growing Xenophobia Amis covid-19 Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, a concomitant pandemic named as xenophobia has also engulfed the whole world. As per reported incidents so far, xenophobia, more specifically Sinophobia, is surging at an exponential rate across the globe. Stigmatization of Chinese people in the wake of outbreak of coronavirus has become new normal. People now look at Chinese with …

Green Economy2 The world is not in a good shape at the moment — food prices are rising, freshwater sources are depleting, energy prices are soaring, biodiversity is dying out, intense storms are damaging towns and cities, while floods and droughts are threatening the livelihoods of millions. Clearly, climate change is playing a major role in taking its toll on …

Four Cardinal Principles for  Pakistan’s water diplomacy   Pakistan’s water diplomacy in the region must be based on four cardinal principles: Pakistan’s regional diplomacy should seek to proactively respond to India’s efforts to keep a lid on water as a bilateral matter and deal with each neighbour separately. Pakistan is not the only country with which India has unresolved water …

Peacemaking in an Era of New Wars. Fleeing people locked up in camps along the US–Mexico border or drowning in the Mediterranean Sea; trucks driving into crowds of people; mass shootings in schools; violent storms, floods and fires caused by climate change; seemingly never-ending wars in places like Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen or the Democratic Republic of the Congo; the spread …

Effects of Covid 19 on the Global Economy Estimates so far predict that the ailment could cut down the global economic growth by 0.5% to 1.5% but the full impact of it may not be known until the effects peak. The adverse effects of the pandemic are vividly evident in a wide range of social and economic activities such as …

Drawbacks of poor governance We were never prepared for the pandemic of this magnitude. In pre-coronavirus era, almost 90 percent poor of the country were served by philanthropists from the private sector.