Misery of the cotton pickers of Sindh demands Bilawal Bhutto’s attention
Sahib Khan Some months ago, people from Bheel community from Khairpur district staged sit-in protest outside Hyderabad Press Club (HPC). They were protesting against a...
Are Pakistani politicians dancing with Perkin’s hitmen?
Imtiaz Gul | John Perkins, the best selling author of the book 'Confessions of An Economic Hitman,' talks of how corrupt rulers of smaller developing nations...
Bloomberg thinks Pakistan will be an over-performer next year
Tyler Cowen | Each year I perform the exercise of picking what I think is the most underrated (and overrated) economy in the world. Past...
Thousands of Indian farmers commit suicide each year due to India’s farming policy
By Rina Chandran and Suchitra Mohanty MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only an overhaul of India's farming policy, including addressing the small size of...
Dollar collapses in one week of Trump in office
John Geddie Investors' hopes for a fiscal boost to the world's largest economy under Trump have been tempered by controversial and protectionist policies that have...
Silicon Valley puts money and muscle into fighting Trump immigrant ban
Silicon Valley took the lead over the weekend in corporate resistance to US President Donald Trump's clampdown on immigration. Criticizing the plan, US tech companies...
Employees rejected proposal to lease out Pakistan Steel Mill for 30 years
The employees of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) have opposed a government proposal to lease out the country’s largest industrial unit for 30 years and...
Richest Young Couple in the world; Who are they?
The share market float of messaging phenomenon Snapchat is likely to make chief executive Evan Spiegel and his Australian fiancé, model Miranda Kerr, one of the world's...
China’s President Warns President Trump
Syed Bakhtiyar Kazmi | The fact that he was the first Chinese president to attend the annual bash was a pleasant development for the fawning...
Mark Zuckerberg explains Facebook’s secrets for acquiring companies
During the weeks leading up to Mark Zuckerberg's decision to buy Oculus for $2 billion, he received a concerning message from then-Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe. Google was...
8 Men control as much wealth as the poorest 50% the global population?
A new Oxfam Report has a number of startling claims about wealth inequality around the world – the world’s eight richest people control the...
Trump’s tweets keep US manufacturers on their toes
Criticism of Ford, GM and others raises prospect of elements of US industrial strategy being formulated on social media Donald Trump’s prolific and opinionated tweeting...