The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt celebrates innovation and creative destruction as the true engines of growth. Pakistan should listen: we protect the old and punish the new. Growth needs risk-takers, not rent-seekers, because innovation is not imported, it is built. Mokyr’s insight was that sustained […]
Pakistan punished poor catching from South Africa to accumulate 259-5 on the opening day of the second and final Test in Rawalpindi on Monday. Had the tourists not dropped five catches on a turning pitch they would have been in a better position after Pakistan won the toss and batted. Skipper Shan Masood, dropped on […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday extended Diwali greetings to the Hindu community and other religious minorities, calling the festival a “beautiful message of joy, peace and tolerance” and reaffirming the government’s commitment to protecting minority rights. Addressing a special ceremony at the Prime Minister’s House that included senior religious and diplomatic figures, members of […]