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Oct 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ishrat Husain |Muhammad Amir Rana
Telling TwilightBy M. Athar TahirUniversity of PunjabISBN: 978-969-9325-95-3180pp. I n a bid to express emotions, feelings and ideas, poets have for ages used various verse forms and continue to do so to this day. Among these various forms, the sonnet is one that has maintained an enduring appeal for English poets as well as readers, mainly because of its capacity to express a variety of themes in an eloquent and condensed manner.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Mehr Afshan Farooqi |Abbas Nasir |Ishrat Husain |Muhammad Amir Rana
I grew up in a home lovingly filled with books; there were books in every room. Books defined who we were. My mother was an educationist and Father was a civil servant and a rising writer. He spent whatever time he could snatch from his busy life, reading and writing. But there was no designated study or workplace for Father as the house wasn’t big enough.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Shazia Hasan |Abbas Nasir |Ishrat Husain |Muhammad Amir Rana
Unveiling Jazbaa: A History of Pakistan Women’s CricketBy Aayush PuthranLightstone PublishersISBN: 978-969-716-283-3347pp. Sharp and focused, Sana Mir in full cricket gear stares straight at you from the cover of Unveiling Jazbaa: A History of Pakistan Women’s Cricket.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ishrat Husain
THE country requires a comprehensive three-year action plan for domestic reforms, in addition to solidifying external accounts, to ensure a smooth exit from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme and transition to a self-sustained, non-inflationary growth path. The broad contours of such reforms are quite well known. What is needed is to build a consensus among political parties, federal and provincial governments, and the private sector.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ishrat Husain
THE International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board is set to meet next week to discuss the approval of a three-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Pakistan ending in the fiscal year 2027-28 — the 24th time the country is going to enter into an agreement with the lender. There seems to be a broad consensus that it is in Pakistan’ s best interests to exit from the IMF programme.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ishrat Husain
THE government recently formed a committee of eminent international and Pakistani economists to draft a home-grown economic programme. This article shows that there is little need for such a committee. There is no dearth of reports, recommendations, cabinet decisions and plans prepared by the government itself as well as international development partners, private sector organisations, academic institutions, think tanks and professional bodies which cover all aspects of a home-grown programme.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Ishrat Husain
THE newly elected government faces an immense challenge as it steps into office, with high expectations from citizens to curtail inflation, alleviate poverty, create jobs and deliver essential public services while consolidating its fiscal and external accounts in an ever-shrinking space. The problems, their analysis and proposed reforms are well known, yet the implementation remains a stumbling block.
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Jan 5, 2024 | 
thenews.com.pk | Ishrat Husain
Very few Pakistanis have made a name for their significant contributions on national and international fronts and are admired for their personal attributes. Sartaj Aziz was one of them – an active student leader during the freedom movement, a civil servant par excellence, an international mover and shaker, a politician of integrity and stature, and an academic of high calibre.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
muslimmirror.com | Ishrat Husain
By Prof. Ishrat HusainThe main purpose of the criminal justice system in any civilized society is to protect the innocent by apprehending and punishing the offender. CrPC mainly provides the procedure to apprehend and punish an offender, if he has committed any offence under IPC or any other law. Recently, the Union Home Minister introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha that aim to repeal and replace the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which was enacted during the British rule in India.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
dawn.com | Ishrat Husain
PAKISTAN is facing a myriad of problems such as inflation, joblessness, unstable currency, unaffordable energy bills and falling living standards. The recent announcement of heavy investment by the Gulf countries is highly welcome, but this should not divert the attention of caretakers or the incoming elected government from pursuing aggressively an agenda of much-delayed reforms to tackle underlying structural problems.
