Taxes and duties are a major source of income for any government to run its functions. A government, which fails to put economic progress on the right track by introducing certain policies to give boost to industrial, human resource and business sectors, becomes totally dependent on taxation.
After selling the Cash Cows the only option remains [...]
he newly-appointed US special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke is not new to the region. But he remained here three decades ago and one would think that he is out of touch of the issues related to the South Asia. But his recent press briefings, media statements and the articles in various journals [...]
A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the grocery store he pays Rs. 12 a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won’t last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time. One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to Rs. 16. The next [...]
Stage is set for the new government to come in and start acting. Curtain is rising and the first claps of the audience are ending. It’s time to perform. There is no honeymoon whatsoever for the newly weds. Crisis upon crisis, and challenges upon challenges are waiting with to engulf the resolve of these parliamentarians [...]
Why don’t we just bother to vote? General Elections in Pakistan are likely to be held on 18th February, which is Monday next week, and it will be a national holiday, and that is what many of Pakistanis are happy about. They are asking each other as whether it will be a holiday on [...]
Though the man has ran away from “Putli gullee”, and is nowhere to be seen when nation is reaching for their pistols after not finding his much touted bumper crop, we could beat the line by discussing was he really there to understand our economic woes, or any moron could boast about positive economic indexes [...]
18th February elections in Pakistan are somewhat different in the sense that they are not yet another Nora-Wrestling match between Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto. They are perhaps yet another dealt-with, pre-decided, Nora-Wrestling, but this time between new players for the new stakes.
These elections are all about change. The sun is setting for the old [...]
