Adil Najam Pakistan needs serious tax reform. That we did not get today. What it got instead was a collection drive – supposedly to pay for the post-flood rehabilitation, but probably even more because the international community has been pushing us to raise internal revenue collection. That itself is not a bad thing. Indeed, it […]
Adil Najam It is time, yet again, to request our readers to please grade the performance of the key figures in Pakistan politics. We had asked you to do so in April 2010 and earlier in 2009 (here and here). We had presented the comparison between these two results here. Given the political twists and […]
Adil Najam Former President of Pakistan, Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari died in the early hours of Wednesday at the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology in Rawalpindi. He was 70 and a heart patient for some time. Like Ghulam Ishaq Khan before him (here and here), had the Presidency ‘thrust’ upon him by circumstance and […]
