The state economy has failed itself and is trying to fail the civil economy also!
The state economy has failed miserably. It is collapsing under its own weight. And the debris is falling directly on the already-much-dented civil economy.
In case the state makes it happen, as it is trying to put all the burden of its own failures on the civil economy, that would be catastrophic.
And that would unleash a domino effect like situation and may cause anarchy and lawlessness in the society.…
Radical situations require radical solutions
The Essence of Economics
Living happily ever after economics
Almost all the economists and the state economists especially have a painting hanging at the back of their minds that displays a dream of living happily ever after against which they do their economics.…
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جو بائیڈن نے کیا غلط کہہ دیا؟
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Rules for a Conversation
Note: Here conversation means any serious exchange of ideas between two or more persons.
Nothing in any manner has any reference to any person whosoever.
As I am interested in ethics also, by observing what usually happens in conversations at various fora from a chat between a few friends or acquaintances to a large organized meeting to various WhatsApp groups, I have tried to form and compile a number of rules that may help a productive and mutually beneficial conversation to pleasantly take place.
The following rules may serve in lieu of an ethics of a conversation.
- If someone considers a person not a free agent, there is no point in talking to and arguing with him. That’s the first prerequisite of any conversation.
- Not every comment is an invitation to debate. Even if it appears so, sometimes let it go unanswered, unrefuted. The heavens is not going to fall.
Two fears
One friend sent this excerpt from Oswald Spengler:
“This machine-technics will end with the Faustian civilization and one day will lie in fragments, forgotten — our railways and steamships as dead as the Roman roads and the Chinese wall, our giant cities and skyscrapers in ruins like old Memphis and Babylon. The history of this technics is fast drawing to its inevitable close. It will be eaten up from within, like the grand forms of any and every Culture. When, and in what fashion, we know not.”
Here is what I wrote in response:
I don’t know whether such doomsaying predictions have any basis in the dynamics of our society or not, but one thing quite evident from the prism of history is that humankind elevated itself form a very violent state of affairs to a comparatively peaceful state and of course it’s due to certain rules that they bound …
نظام ِفکر پہلے یا نظام ِاقدار پہلے
کیا کوئی نظام فکر نظام اقدار کے بغیر وجود میں آ سکتا ہے؟
اقدار پہلے ہیں، نظام بعد میں۔
یہ معاملہ بھی خود ایک قدر کی حیثیت رکھتا ہے۔
مثلاً شائستگی کو ملحوظ رکھنا پہلے ہے، سچائی کا اظہار بعد میں۔
لہٰذا اقدار مقدم ہیں، نظام متاخر۔
سو غور کیجیے آپ کا نظامِ فکر یا جس نظامِ فکر پر آپ یقین رکھتے ہیں، وہ اس ترتیب پر پورا اترتا ہے یا نہیں۔…
Economists and their Statist Solutions
The solutions economists put forward, such as to the (economic) problems/crises faced only by the state/government; I mean most of the economists, or almost all of the State Economists do that, and all of their solutions culminate in extracting more and more value or the wealth created by the entrepreneurs/citizens, i.e. that value and/or wealth that belong to them.
No such solution asks for the size of the government to be cut down, to be limited.
They always ask for more and more government, i.e. more and more taxes, etc, to be imposed on the people.
Are there no Civil Economists in Pakistan? But a few.
The civil economists focus on the (economic) problems faced by the citizens and seek/propose solutions to them.
That’s the thesis that my booklet formulates and elaborates.…
Main Ingredient’s of Economic Activism
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…
آج کے پاکستان کا تاریخی پس منظر – برَصغیر کے مسلمانوں کی دو بڑی تہذیبی قدریں – 1

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Psychological and Philosophical Beings
What’s Danishwar Ashrafiya?
What ails Pakistan?
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.…
آپ شہر پسند ہیں یا ریاست پسند
‘‘تیسری جنگِ عظیم کیسے ٹلی’’
Political Engineering =+<*> Economic Engineering
The political engineering has utterly failed and thrown the politics into a bottomless pit.
In the same way, economic engineering too has miserably failed and put the economic state of the people into a despairing helplessness.
What’s political engineering?
It’s the management of choosing political losers and winners disregarding the will of the people. That is, it tampers with the natural flow of the political process and everything related with it, in order to arbitrarily decide who’s going to be the winner and who the loser in an election or otherwise.
Now and then this or that political party or parties become complicit in this management of tampering with the political process or will of the people.
In short, political engineering is all about choosing winners and losers in politics anti-constitutionally and against the will of the people.
Who are the political engineers?
In the first place, and mainly, the …
ریلیف کی سیاست اور ریلیف کی معاشیات
بجٹ یا حکومت کا لاگت ۔ فائدہ (کاسٹ ۔ بینیفٹ) تجزیہ
ویسے میں ہر برس بجٹ پر لکھتا بھی نہیں۔ کوئی فائدہ بھی نہیں۔ یکساں چیزیں بار بار دہرائی جاتی ہیں۔ جو سیاسی جماعتیں اقتدار میں ہوتی ہیں، وہ ویسے ہی بجٹ پیش کرتی ہیں، جیسے بجٹوں پر وہ خود تنقید کرتی ہیں، جب وہ اپوزیشن میں ہوتی ہیں۔ اور اپوزیشن بھی بجٹوں پر ویسی ہی تنقید کرتی ہے، جیسے بجٹ وہ خود پیش کرتی رہی ہیں، یا کریں گی، جب وہ حکومت میں ہوتی ہیں یا ہوں گی۔
باایں سبب، اس مرتبہ بھی بجٹ پر کچھ لکھنے کا ارادہ نہیں تھا۔ مگر عزیز دوست قادر بخش صاحب نے اس مالی سال کے بجٹ پر میری رائے مانگ لی اور یوں مجھے لکھنے کا بہانہ مل گیا۔
روایتی قسم کا تبصرہ کرنے کے بجائے، میری کوشش ہے کہ کچھ سیدھی سیدھی باتیں کی جائیں۔
بجٹ پر نظر ڈالنے سے قبل دو باتیں بیان کر دینا ضروری ہے۔
اول یہ کہ ریاست …
پاکستان کی سیاست میں ایک بنیادی تبدیلی
[نوٹ: یہ تحریر لکھنے کے بعد میں بارہا یہ سوچتا رہا ہوں کہ سیاست دانوں میں اگر عزم و ارادہ موجود ہو، اور وہ کچھ کرنے کا تہیہ کر لیں، تو وہ کچھ نہ کچھ ضرور کر سکتے ہیں۔ یعنی سیاسی و حکومتی اور سول معاملات میں قائمیہ کی ازلی و بھرپور مداخلت اور بالادستی کے باوجود وہ شہریوں کی بہتری کے لیے کچھ کام تو ضرور انجام دے سکتے ہیں۔ جیسا کہ اس تحریر میں کہا گیا ہے کہ تھانہ کلچر کی تبدیلی اور ٹیکس اصلاحات، یہ دو کام اور پھر اور بہت سے کام تو کیے جا سکتے ہیں۔ ہاں، شرط یہ ہے کہ سیاست دان شہریوں پر اعتماد کریں اور ان کی طاقت پر انحصار کریں، پھر وہ کچھ بھی کرنے کے قابل ہو سکتے ہیں۔ 17 جنوری، 2023 ]
یہ محض رائے تبدیل ہونے کا معاملہ نہیں۔
ویسے جب باہر کچھ تبدیل ہوتا ہے، رائے بھی …