Tag: elites

Just a few days back, I read a fascinating review of a recently published book on development in the Financial ...

The favourite pastime of the chattering classes in Pakistan is blaming corruption for all the ills in our society. It is ...

The dream of inclusive social development will not materialise unless an efficient workforce selected through meritocracy reigns supreme in the ...

Consumerism, or the preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods, largely emerged from the 19th century onwards. It ...

South Asian Islamic scholar and one of the pioneers of ‘political Islam,’ Abul Ala Maududi (d.1979), often described secularism as ...

In the post-Musharraf period, Pakistani politicians have been behaving as if they are revolutionaries. Their self image as political radicals ...