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Improving Health Through Education & Better Sanitation

Every year more than 1.3 million children die globally due to diarrheal diseases (WHO, 2013). Diarrhea is a water-borne disease which is caused due to...

Zohra Sohail, Maryam

Jan 1, 2017

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Gary Becker: The Makings of a Nobel laureate

Nobel laureate Gary S. Becker passed away at the age of 83 on May 3, 2014 following complications from a recent surgery.  He was born...

Neelum Maqsood

Dec 1, 2016

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Low Fee Private Schools: Last Hope or Lost Hope?

I got a chance to help in organizing the recently held USAID sponsored low fee private school conference held at LUMS. The fact that international donors such...

Salman Ahmad Khan

Nov 1, 2016

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Patronage Politics

Patronage politics, particularly that brand in which social groups are organised along ethnic lines, is a phenomenon Pakistani (and South Asian) politics is all too...

Ammar Khalid

Oct 1, 2016

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Policing to Counter Terrorism?

Is the post 9/11 experience a harbinger of a period where we shall encounter a perpetual state of war? In the Post-World War II era,...

Ammar Khalid

Sep 1, 2016

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