Planning Minister Calls for Bigger NFC Reforms to Make Pakistan a $1 Trillion Economy

Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, Ahsan Iqbal, called for a comprehensive and ...

Expired, Smuggled Cigarettes Allegedly Being Repackaged and Sold Across Pakistan

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has discovered a major scandal in Pakistan’s tobacco sector, exposing the alleged repackaging of expired, smuggled ...

News from the world of Education: February 28, 2026

Heriot-Watt University Dubai invites applications for its May 2026 intake for the MSc International Business Management with Marketing and MSc International Business Management with Finance courses.
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How mobocracy ruled the education sector during the interim government

Whether the new government can prevent mob culture from becoming embedded in its education system may determine whether classrooms remain sites of learning or battlegrounds of power, and whether such ...

Africa’s public finances are in a mess: a new book explains why and what to do

Most books on public finance are written by men, from institutions in the global north, about systems designed in the global ...

Positive Economics History, Theory, Pros and Cons, and Example

Positive economics is a fact-based analysis of what is occurring in an economy, without making prescriptions of what should or should not be happening.

Impact of Externalities on Equilibrium and Market Failure

Learn how externalities impact economic equilibrium and contribute to market failure in economic transactions, affecting both ...

Prophets and profits: the art of the sell in Shepherd Bushiri’s YouTube sermons

In a widely viewed YouTube sermon called 3 Types of Keys, a preacher, dressed in a sky blue Italian suit, holds a microphone and speaks with great assurance about spiritual matters. Prophet Shepherd ...