Huzaima Bukhari

Inside China's Warp-Speed Rise July 24, 2026 “China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”—Napoleon Bonaparte

“China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.”—Napoleon Bonaparte The automated marine terminals of Shanghai offer a glimpse into a future that the West is struggling to comprehend. Across vast expanses of...

Punjab's latest experiment with restaurant and other vendors' service taxation, receiving payment through digital mode, has been marketed as a “50 percent relief” for consumers.

Instead, Beijing turned the tables. The Chinese leadership masterfully utilized global capital inflows to supercharge its centralized model, absorbing Western intellectual property, manufacturing know-how, and technology while building an alternative economic gravity well that now pulls the rest of the world toward its orbit.

“The United States is losing ground to China—not because of Chinese aggression, but because of internal dysfunction, elite failure, and strategic incoherence”—Kishore Mahbubani While China was engineering its industrial leap, the Western world was...

It belongs equally to every child born upon it. Citizens must reclaim it before those playing with fire finally burn down the only home humani

Meaningful reform demands more than periodic amendments to provincial tax statutes

Every pre and post budget debate in Pakistan presents a familiar headline: the country's tax-to-GDP ratio remains among the lowest in the region.

The greatest danger confronting a society is not inflation, political instability or even crime. It is the gradual erosion of its moral sensitivity. A society begins to decline the day preventable tragedies cease to provoke collective introspection and become merely another item in the daily news cycle. Every civilisation faces adversity. Floods, earthquakes, epidemics, tsunamis and accidents have accompanied humanity throughout history. What distinguishes healthy societies from declining ones is not the absence of tragedy but the refusal to accept preventable suffering as inevitable.

The challenge before Pakistan, therefore, is not simply to decide how many provinces it should have. It is to determine whether the