Can you remember a Pakistani government of any kind in your lifetime that has argued against the urgent need to:

* privatize loss-making state-owned enterprises, or

* improve local governance, or

* attract more foreign direct investment, or

* dramatically increase

This who have known Justice Babar Sattar, including the present AGP, know his commitment to rule of law will remain unshakeable … try all the filthy tricks u have in ur bag…remember Pakistan & its people alone r the losers with NO WINNERS.
But all this is bound to change ..

Well, it’s simple, it’s Arab food 😂

OPINION: Pakistani elites have mastered the 'articulation' of the language of 'reform', writes Mosharraf Zaidi

Read more: geo.tv/latest/541741

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The entire world can see the intellect and the integrity of the people for whom Faisal Vawda is an asset and Babar Sattar is a threat.

The ENTIRE world.

Who are we fooling?

The complete collapse of Western soft power among the world’s new generation - which I keep seeing in my own travels - will be highly consequential

France needs to appoint a chief science adviser, argue Patrick Lemaire and François Massol in a new #ScienceEditorial .

'There is an urgent need for France to implement long-term science-informed policy-making.' scim.ag/6KH

-Story gets out that Blinken is ignoring Israeli human rights abuses
-PR story appears that Biden admin is going to do something
-Israel publicly acts outraged that laws may apply to them
-Biden admin quietly decides to do nothing

What a perfect summary of this admin

Would be useful to conduct cost-benefit analysis on the capita value of spending public resources on Trail 5 security versus beefing up police capability to prevent wave of urban crime—esp phone snatching, theft and dacoities. twitter.com/radiopakistan/…

Back at UT Austin for day two of protests. This one says it is both intended to support Gaza and to condemn the police response yesterday.

The crowd is at least 5x larger than the crowd that showed up yesterday at this time. Peaceful, quiet. Very little law enforcement presence.

You look at Tkachuck and Verhaghae driving results for the Panthers (stars delivering value) and how Carolina’s system drives results for Brindamour (coach delivering value) & you look at the Leafs… and, ugh, we have neither.

Prove me wrong Matty, Mitchy, Willy and PP1. 🙏🏾

Once Pakistani talent can breathe, freed from under the layers of dinosaurs that asphyxiate and exhaust the energy and talent of good people from this great country….

THIS is the music and sound they can make… ⬇️

Rock on Tasha Jessen 💕

EdTech interventions could help solve some of Pakistan's education challenges.

Ministry of Education and Professional Training's Teleschool App emerged during the pandemic, but does it have long-term potential?

Learn more in our First Response 👇

tabadlab.com/the-case-of-te…… #distancelearning #edtech

Since 2021, McKinsey has agreed to pay about $1 billion to settle investigations and lawsuits across the United States.

nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

refs trying to help Boston by putting #LeafsNation on the powerplay over and over again.

Mosharraf Zaidi Pakistani business leaders have thrived on rent seeking (cheap gas prices, cheap financing, protective tariffs, cartels) and not through competition. Their exposure is limited and calibre low. Just think about it: Shahrukh Khan’s net worth is $700m and the market cap of the

Want to understand the real difference between Pakistan and India?

First video: top end Pakistani tycoon

Second video: top end Indian tycoon

Pay attention to:

1. the topics the business leader is discussing,

2. the manner in which the issues are framed and

3. the time

The response of a key South Asia expert in DC to a The New York Times question about Modi being his RSS self and employing incendiary & racist screeds in his election campaign?

“Modi is one of the world’s most skilled and experienced politicians”.

Embarrassing.

nytimes.com/2024/04/23/wor…

It isn’t hard to see what Iran is trying to do sending its president to 🇵🇰 in the midst of its confrontation with genocidal Israel.

What is hard to see is why Pakistan laid out the red carpet for Iran’s public relations offensive.

Read my Substack

open.substack.com/pub/mosharraf/…

How do we assess country governance?

The Capability Accountability Responsiveness (CAR) framework used to be one of my favourites.

How would 🇵🇰 measure up on CAR metrics today?

Some ruminations in today’s column… thenews.com.pk/print/1181210-…