Hollywood and the movies of the fifties
- 01-Jun-2026
This book ‘Hollywood and the movies of the fifties’ by Foster Hirsch is a personal, wide-screen approach to the best and worst of times for movies. Threatened by TV and the beginning of the end of the studio system, the 1950s was the “most turbulent decade in the history of the American filmmaking industry”—at least […]
Pakistan’s moment for structural reforms
- 26-Jun-2025
After years of economic stagnation and firefighting to avert default, the government is finally pivoting towards long overdue structural reforms, buoyed by a markedly improved macroeconomic outlook. Inflation, which had surged to 38% in mid-2023, has plunged to a six-decade low, prompting the central bank to slash interest rate from 22% to 11%. The exchange […]
Issue of civil war
- 30-Aug-2024
Civil war is a violent conflict between a state and one or more organized non-state actors in the state’s territory. Civil wars are thus distinguished from interstate conflicts, violent conflicts or riots not involving states and state repression against individuals who cannot be considered an organized or cohesive group, including genocides, and similar violence by […]
Emergence of global civil society
- 30-Aug-2024
In the current scenario of retrenching internationalism holding sway spearheaded by no less than political supremos of the US and Britain, it is progressively becoming difficult to talk about global civil society. However, it is conveniently neglected that global civil society is about political emancipation and its underlying assumption is the empowerment of individuals and […]
The Need For Pakistan
- 13-Aug-2024
Although Pakistan is going through a lean period but the fact is that Pakistan was the need of the Muslims of the subcontinent after the end of the British rule. It was universally recognized that two nations living side by side for a millennium remained alien to each other. It was a unique accident of […]
Labour’s landslide victory in Britain
- 11-Jul-2024
It was 14 years of the rule of the Conservative Party that polarised Britain intensely though it is considered a party of stability and harmony. The fractured Conservative rule gave a chance to the opposition Labour Party to come into the governing arena with a bang. The landslide Labour victory indicated that the British people […]
Phenomenon of privatization
- 06-Jul-2024
There is plenty of talk about the urgent need of privatizing many State-Owned Enterprises that have become money guzzlers and are proving to be heavy burden on the national economy. Privatization can be thought of as the shift of a function in whole, or in part, from the public sector to the private sector. This […]
Population increase and Pakistan
- 26-Jun-2024
The global population reached the seven billion mark in 2011 and in 2021 it stood at about 7.7 billion. It is expected to grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030; 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.9 billion in 2100. Pakistan has actually spearheaded the population growth with its population growing from 33 million to 230 […]
Adapting to climate change
- 12-Jun-2024
After facing the harrowing prospects of nuclear catastrophe, the globe is now grappling intensive climate change. The concerns in this respect are genuine though the constraints of states about the costs to pay for adopting radical policies are also visible. Altering the current reliance on fossil fuels entails substantial financial and logistical concessions and the […]
Changing perceptions about bureaucratic machinery
- 12-Jun-2024
Despite the strong hold of deeply entrenched traditional dominant classes, it however, is witnessed that undoubtedly the bureaucratic machinery of the state still matters though with evident weakness. This problematic issue is denoted by immense expansion of the private services sector, especially in banking and finance, telecommunications, legal, health and educational services, media, non- governmental […]