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BY: JAWED NAQVI THE direct message from Cyril Almeida`s aborted harassment in Pakistan and the nuanced message from the BRICS summit in India have an unwitting connection, beyond their incidental Goa link. The Pakist an establishment would lil(e to deny though they may not succeed that the world wants them to fix the security apparatus`s apparently stubborn need to court …

BY: ISHRAT HUSAIN PAKISTAN has successfully completed the Extended Fund Facility arrangement with the IMF. The economy has stabilised; inflation has been subdued and initial investment under CPEC has begun. We now stand at a crossroads. One road leads to sustained growth and prosperity, the other to a place where our preoccupation with election-year politics can push us back into …

If there is one area in which the government has utterly failed to bring about any improvement, it is in the state of public-sector enterprises. The last review of the IMF programme, released by the Fund`s staff, points out that the accumulated losses of the three large public-sector companies and the power sector are now greater than the country`s annual …

By Amin Ahmed ISLAMABAD: The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has warned that a `business as usual` approach could put millions of more people at risk of hunger compared to a future without climate change. The State of Food and Agriculture2016 report released by the FAO on Monday claimed that most affected would be populations in …

LAHORE:  Executive Director, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, TUV Austria, David Embery has asked Pakistan to focus on improving law and order, educational reforms, tax reforms, and more business and investment friendly laws to better develop the human resource capital and attract foreign investors. He was addressing the Annual Budget Symposium for Asia Pacific Region for the year 2017 organised by …

Pakistan has improved its standing slightly as compared to 2008 with respect to hunger levels in the country. The latest Global Hunger Index released by the International Food Policy Research Institute gives it a rating of 33.4 as opposed to 35.1 in the 2008 index, placing it at 108th place amongst the 118 countries included in the Index. This essentially …

By: Shmuel Rosner JERUSALEM — In 2001, shortly after he was elected prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon traveled to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at the Kremlin. According to Danny Ayalon, who was an adviser to the Israeli prime minister at the time, Mr. Putin, as is the habit of world leaders, urged Mr. Sharon to …

By: Paul Krugman I’m a baby boomer, which means that I’m old enough to remember conservatives yelling “America — love it or leave it!” at people on the left who criticized racism and inequality. But that was a long time ago. These days, disdain for America — the America that actually exists, not an imaginary “real America” in which minorities …

If ever Pakistan needed to look to the quality and efficacy of its diplomatic services then that time is now. The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit has just ended in Goa and India has used it as a vehicle to promote is goal of the isolation of Pakistan — diplomatically, economically and any other variant of …

Of the two great autocratic powers in Eurasia, Russia is emerging as a greater short-term threat than China. The Chinese hope to gradually dominate the waters off the Asian mainland without getting into a shooting war with the U.S. Yet while Beijing’s aggression is cool, Moscow’s is hot. When the current U.S. administration seems out of gas and a new …