A few years ago, friends from a political party, that formed the government then, asked me to tell what things our party should do. I told them the following: – that party contested the elections, they had an election manifesto, they already know what to do. – There are so many op-ed writers, analysts, etc, and they are already telling the government what to do. – If you want me to tell what to do. Tell your party to contact me officially and pay me a negotiable fee, and that fee would be paid by the party from its own

تنقید کرتے رہنا، غصہ اور اشتعال دکھاتے رہنا۔۔۔ یہ چیزیں بھی ایک نشہ اور عادت بن جاتی ہیں۔ ہمیں صاف ذہن کے ساتھ کیا کرنا ہے کیسے کرنا ہے اس پر متوجہ ہونا چاہیے۔ تبدیلی اور بہتری کی طرف پہلا قدم یہی ہو سکتا ہے۔

The umpteenth time, a nationwide electricity blackout happened on 23 January. It was told, after keeping the system switched off during the night when they tried to switch it on, it did not. However, whatever was the fault, electricity supply started restoring after 15 hours. The same is the case with democracy in Pakistan. The democracy grid remained switched off for about four years, until the moment darkness engulfed the power grid itself. Then the staff in charge invited the technicians to switch it on and reconnect it to the constitutional grid. It did not. Democracy is still in an

Now instead of writing, I am posting my talks on various issues regularly on my YouTube Channel: Dr Khalil Official Join the Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVSq4e_xHkgqoWAJ3swq6Eg جو بائیڈن نے کیا غلط کہہ دیا؟

In view of the massive taxes killing the economic life of ordinary citizens, Pakistani economists need to come out of their comfortable economic models and embrace the Economic Activism, some of the ingredients of which may be as follows: Main ingredients of Economic Activism: Radical solutions Ready-to-practice solutions Campaigning for those solutions Activism for those solutions Lobbying for those solutions Meaningful sloganeering

It’s the same ill that afflicts politics and economics in Pakistan. Choosing winners and losers by employing unnatural methods. In politics, it’s the establishment that does that. In economics, it’s the governments that do that. In both cases, the natural process of choosing winners and losers is thwarted.

میں ریاست اور حکومت کے نقطہء نظر سے لوگوں اور معاشرے کو دیکھتا ہوں تو میں ریاست پسند ہوں۔ اگر میں لوگوں اور معاشرے کے نقطہء نظر سے ریاست اور حکومت کو دیکھتا ہوں تو میں ریاست پسند ہرگز نہیں، بلکہ شہر پسند ہوں۔ اور تاریخی حقیقت بھی یہی ہے کہ لوگوں نے مل کر ریاست قائم کی اپنے تحفظ کے لیے۔ پھر حکومت بنائی تاکہ وہ ریاست کو چلائے۔ نہ کہ ریاست اور حکومت نے لوگوں کو جنم دیا۔ یہی وہ بنیادی اندازِ فکر ہے، جس سے ہماری سیاسیات اور معاشیات کا تعین ہوتا ہے۔