Abdul Basit Khan
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- Sep 16, 2026
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Pakistan’s untapped engine of economic growth - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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PAKISTAN is searching for sustainable ways to accelerate economic growth, increase exports, reduce poverty and create employment. We debate industrialization, taxation, investment and productivity—and rightly so. But one enormous economic resource remains substantially underutilized: Pakistan’s rural female workforce. The question is no longer whether Pakistani women can contribute to economic growth. They already do. The real question is why so much of their contribution remains invisible, info
Don’t blame the bureaucracy alone - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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PAKISTAN’S governance crisis is often explained in remarkably simple terms: the bureaucracy is inefficient, corrupt, resistant to reform and responsible for administrative failure. There is certainly substance to some of these criticisms. No institution should be beyond accountability and civil servants who abuse authority, take bribes or deliberately obstruct public service must face consequences. But blaming the bureaucracy alone is neither fair nor sufficient. Before judging civil servants, w
From independence to responsibility - Pakistan Observer (opens the original)
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As Pakistan approaches another Independence Day, the familiar celebrations will once again fill our streets with flags, lights, national songs and speeches. Yet Independence Day should not merely be an occasion to remember the sacrifices of our forefathers or to celebrate the creation of Pakistan. It should also be a moment of national introspection: What have we done with the freedom we inherited and what responsibilities does that freedom place upon us? On August 14, 1947, Pakistan emerged as
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