Politics and the Price Level
Andrew Yamakawa Elrod comments on inflation and the governance of prices in the Phenomenal World: In 1959, the leaders of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC, now the OECD)
Phuddoo Khata
WHATSAPP Shared: The phrase “Phuddoo Khata” refers to lawlessness, chaos, embezzlement, misappropriations and specially compromising deserving people’s rights in Indo- Pak. I always wondered about the origin of the phrase,
The US-China “Thucydides Trap” and Pakistan
Ambassador G Rasool Baluch: In my earlier essay published in July 2020 in this paper, I had argued that the US, as a ruling global power, and China, as a
The Lost Art of Staying Put
Lucy Ellmann in The Baffler: NOT ALL THAT LONG AGO, air travel was a clear badge of elite cultural distinction, from the “jet set” to the Sinatra-mangling ad slogan, “Come Fly With
عمران خان کے آزادی مارچ میں میرا حصہ
Naushad Usman, Jeddah-based Pakistani professional & entrepreneur, WhatsApp shares his ‘contribution’ to Imran Khan’s ‘Azadi march’: یہ قافلہ پھر سے گامزن ہےاگر چہ رستے میں راہزن ہےجواں ہے جذبہ جواں
Indian Western ‘Thar’ a New Netflix Release is More Mood than Plot
Thar, a new Netflix release, belongs to a distinct subversive genre. Long shots of desolate desert. A grisly murder, a severed ear. A fatigued cop, Surekha (Anil Kapoor), about to
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PM Shehbaz Asks Karachi Businessmen to Devise Plan for $1Bn Saudi Investment
Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif on Friday asked Karachi businessmen to devise a plan for an investment of $1 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia. He said that Saudis had stated they
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Saudi Stock Market Brief: Weekending May 20, 2022
By Ghiasuddin, JEDDAH: Oil prices went further up. WTI price increased by 6.14% and Brent by 4.21% as compared to prices last week. WTI and Brent were seen trading at
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The Cult of Winston Churchill
A new book from Tariq Ali argues that Britain needs to face up to the darker side of its great wartime icon Priyamvada Gopal in the Prospect: On the back
‘Don’t Feel Guilty’ and the ‘Quit’ Narrative Over Rising Inflation
“Don’t Feel Guilty”, India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh told a gathering of BJP workers in Pune. He said that global supply chains were disrupted due to the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and
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In Pakistan Politics and Economics are Strange Bedfellows (Video)
Polemics in the garb of intense politics (rather partisanship) may be giving Pakistan’s economy a somewhat Cinderella look. The causal effect of divisive politics and rumblings in economy and vice
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“Hello” is About a Woman Trying to Reconnect (Video)
Adele’s ‘Hello’ was the fastest music video to hit 1 billion views on YouTube. The song now has 2,974,930,689 (2.975 billion) views – since October 2015 – it has 17m
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