Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category

Discourage dirty Politics in Pakistan

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar A paradox lies at the heart of politics in Pakistan. Political polarization is at its peak in Pakistan ahead of the forthcoming general elections. Pakistani brand “democracy” has not been able to deliver anything to the masses during a long tenure of more than four years. There has hardly been any [...]

Share

Pak U.S Ties at Odds

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar A US Congressional committee in its budgetary proposals for the year 2013 has prohibited economic and security assistance to Pakistan unless the government of Pakistan is cooperating with the US on counterterrorism efforts and other issues and takes action against groups like Haqqani network, Taliban, al-Qaida, LeT and JeM. Even Pakistan [...]

Share

Minimum wage of labour increased to Rs 8000

The minimum wage of workers in Pakistan has been increased to eight thousand rupees, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani announced. Additionally, the Employees’ Old-Age Benefit Institution pension has been increased to Rs 2,000 from Rs 1,500. Gilani, addressing an event at said “Our democratic government is committed to bringing a socio-economic revolution in the country, [...]

Share

Cameron Munter-A Great Man From American Lands

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER History is going to repeat itself very soon. The people of Pakistan must be ready for another episode like that of the Abbotabad Hunting. Zawahiri is in Pakistan; assured the gracious lady Hilary Clinton talking to media in Kolkata, a few days back. She further said in the same interview, “You have [...]

Share

Illiteracy a Path to Ruin

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Education has always been and continues to be one of the most important needs of mankind. Every Government is thus obliged to not only strive towards providing access to education to all its citizens but must also improve the quality of education in the country. Contrarily The Pakistani education system is [...]

Share

Mixed economy better for Pakistan

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar Three decades back, the world was divided into socialists and capitalists describing it as cold war, a war between believers of free market and those who see socialism as the better and fairer way of organizing societies. The economies of nations behind the Iron Curtain were in trouble. They both believed [...]

Share

Hypocritical Politics in Pakistan

By: Shaukat Masood Zafar For a number of years now, political pundits have lauded the Pakistani two-party political system as an excellent balance between the dictatorship of a one-party system and the instability of a multiparty system. Yet the two-party system has caused our country great harm. The PML (N) and PPP have divided the [...]

Share

The True Spirit Of SAARC

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER Though this world of today has to bear the blame of being very much complicated, intricate, self-centered and to some extant knotty and thorny because of its over-mechanized and ultra-computerized ways and manners but still we find in abundance a very strong urge and undefeatable passion of serving the suffering and ailing [...]

Share

Boycott GEO TV – No More Lies…

Large sections of the public, including some journalists have recently raised concerned about the practices of Geo Television networks. The channel to many is notorious for spreading misinformation and lies, unethical journalistic practices and purposely over-dramatizing every news event. In many cases, information is withheld on purpose from the public in an attempt to push [...]

Share

Sybrid’s contact centre for Telenor Pakistan

Lakson Group subsidiary Sybrid (Pvt.) Ltd., a Business Process Outsourcing company, has completed a state-of-the-art contact centre which it will manage for Telenor Pakistan. The new centre — which will create jobs for 500 talented Pakistani individuals — will allow for efficient process handling to meet growing customer needs. The collaboration has led to an [...]

Share