Articles by Khurram Husain
IT is not yet clear how deep and how sustained they are, but cracks are now appearing in the edifice that is the hybrid plus regime running Pakistan these days.
This is a natural consequence of the cu...
THEY all look the same and for good reason. Every budget over the past 10 years (and more) is pretty much the same with minor differences usually in the gimmickry being advanced in the name of a ‘re...
THE conversation about reform in Pakistan is dead. It has been for years.
In Islamabad, the government is celebrating its diplomatic success in the war. These achievements are real and deserve recogni...
OVER the past 10 years the state’s tax effort has burdened compliant taxpayers more and more even as it has largely abandoned any attempt to broaden the tax base or bring in more taxpayers. The resu...
ONE year ago, Pakistan scored a big victory in the May war against India and a round of applause went up around the country for the valiant efforts of our armed forces. Today, Pakistan is on the brink...
THERE is a specific kind of quiet that settles over a capital city when its ruling elite begins to realise that the ground beneath their feet is moving. In Canberra and Melbourne, among the scholars a...
IT took five years of negotiations to end the Vietnam War. The Paris Accords were signed in January 1973 by a beleaguered presidential administration after five years of negotiations that had begun in...
AN interesting thing is happening in the oil markets that has not received enough media attention. Given the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the severe supply-side crisis that has hit gl...
I HAVE waited many years, decades, to write these words and the time has finally come. Today, I feel proud to be a Pakistani. Today, my country stands out among the comity of nations as a peacemaker o...
ANYBODY who has experience in running a business will tell you about a type of person you meet who is adept at leading others without sharing any of the material, tangible benefits of the journey. In ...
