Dr Farrukh Ali Khan, a US based Pakistani doctor, predicts that the incidence of  hepatitis C will triple in next 10 years, if it keeps on increasing at the current rate. Such a statement throws a glaring light on the ineffective policies and planning of the government and its inability to control the […]

When they were formed in 1947, east and west Pakistan taken together formed the 13th most populous country in the world with a total population of 32.5 million. 65 years later this country is half the size of what it used to be with a separated east Pakistan that is now the […]

Tagline: Market based mechanisms at work in Pakistan despite its subscribing to the Kyoto Protocol I see the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the same market-based mechanism which is being followed in Pakistan. Non-control of industries and their functions leads to environmental hazards like the disaster in the […]

Pakistan is a country that has lagged behind the developed world in information and technology for as long as we Pakistanis can remember. Yes, we’ve even lagged behind the United States, which has some of the slowest internet connections in the entire ‘Western World’ and still sports Dial-Up internet – […]