Current privatization efforts dwarf all which have gone before. In general, the “less developed” nations, including peoples of the Muslim faith, seem to have attracted the advocates of privatization. Disturbing results are obtained when the substance and process of privatization are juxtaposed to the teaching of Islam. In certain cases, privatization may result in the … Read more
How to move forward on liberalizing global trade? By incremental steps of an already agreed-upon agenda or by one great leap to free trade in a grand new negotiation? This question arises as trade ministers from the World Trade Organization’s 120 member countries prepare to meet in Singapore in December 1997 to chart the course … Read more
Though rising prices is not a new phenomenon, yet the common man tends to compare the current prices with those prevailing during the past few years. Prices have substantially increased since 1995, and have shown an upward trend, especially after the Budget and hikes in on regular administered prices. It is now very difficult for … Read more
The search for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) since 1974 has meant that the responsibility for achieving a basic economic security and freedom, economic domination of any given country is A that of the people of that country alone. It must be shared by the international community at large. In one sense, Pakistan’s vision … Read more
It must not be forgotten that modern technology has not made itself felt uniformly, nor even universally. Some areas – notably Russia, Pakistan and the Orient – are still dominantly agricultural; and their cities do not display the characteristics of cities as we know them in the West. Generally speaking, they still follow the ancient … Read more
Discipline in public life ensures peace and harmony which in turn offers impetus to the forces of progress and prosperity. No country, big or small, can afford to play duck and … Read more
Democracy, we have been reminded by social scientists from Socrates onwards, is of all forms of governments the most difficult to practise. It is in many respects easier to allow others to do our thinking for us than to work out for ourselves our individual duty as citizens, and do it. A democratic State depends … Read more
The teachings which are the traditional wisdom of all peoples in man although he, too, desires nothing more than somehow to be able to all parts of the world, have become virtually incomprehensible to modern rise above the whole state of the present life’. He hopes to do so by growing rich, by moving around … Read more
Modern civilisation is primarily the Western Civilisation dominated by the white man. For the time over all preceding civilisation and that is had got a permanent and stable basis and thus would survive for ever, unlike the other civilisations which had their day and then perished. But this belief has been shattered by the two … Read more
Strikes and work stoppages are the order of the day. On all sides we see factories, offices, colleges and universities intermittently closed. protest processions, slogan-shouting, dharnas and gheraos and tents pitched up with large union banners and some time hunger-strikers. There are fasts unto death to have the demands conceded, though onlookers cast doubt on … Read more