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Sarmad Khawaja
Sarmad Khawaja

  • December 08, 2025

    Education as humanisation

    Image showing girls attending a class at a school in Lahore. —...

  • July 27, 2025

    Reforming the PBS

    A general view of the building of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics' office....

  • July 27, 2025

    Reforming the PBS

    A general view of the building of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics' office....

  • May 05, 2025

    The making of Marxism

    Four years ago, in these columns, I paid tribute to Marx by outlining his key ideas

  • March 14, 2025

    The metrics that matter

    Point is not to pour cold water over government’s achievements, but to look at baseline metrics

  • February 21, 2025

    The rock opera that’s reviving Seraiki

    Unesco says, such education is in crisis because 37% of children worldwide lack this right

  • February 14, 2025

    Greening our rooftops

    Here is story of roof gardens from ancient times to current practices that we and our civic authorities could learn from

  • December 09, 2024

    The policies will continue

    Mr Trump’s agenda should worry us if we care about democracy and rule of law

  • October 08, 2024

    A walk in the park

    You see and hear this daily – the interactions of flora, and fauna as you ramble along the park’s grounds

  • August 29, 2024

    Trickle-down trouble

    Laissez-faire economics is no guarantor of rapid growth, and no cure for our urgent problems

  • August 02, 2024

    Hooked on hopium

    Data tells that public investment has been falling since 2017 – the key marker of hopium

  • June 08, 2024

    PML-N’s volte face

    What does it mean to keep OGDCL and PPL on the privatization list?

  • May 14, 2024

    Keeping children in school

    The first thing is to build schools two kilometres apart on either side of the Indus

  • May 01, 2024

    The privatization dilemma

    During January-March this year PTCL lost Rs4.8 billion, but before privatization, it was hugely profitable

  • January 27, 2024

    The beauty of mathematics

    Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Whitehead explains this best

  • December 16, 2023

    Is the stock market out of line?

    It is. I say this because I think that as the stock market climbs by...

  • December 02, 2023

    Upending old politics

    Understanding the PPP’s leadership is a puzzle these days. Its...

  • November 25, 2023

    No child left behind

    World Children’s Day is usually an understated affair in our country....

  • October 22, 2023

    The BRI as disruptor

    China's President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening ceremony of the...

  • June 27, 2023

    Centering the children

    The idea of the Charter of Economy has gained traction since the PPP...

  • June 08, 2023

    The false narrative around SOEs

    Selling state companies is a bad idea. But despite failing repeatedly in...

  • May 10, 2023

    The war of liberation

    What should we make of the War of Liberation of 1857 whose 166th...

  • March 03, 2023

    What makes a Pi champion?

    Hafsa Khan – a Grade 9 student at Zoya Science School, Nala Khudadad...

  • October 15, 2022

    Dropping the ball on populism

    Two Sundays ago, in the first round of presidential elections Brazilians...

  • May 05, 2021

    Marx’s enduring appeal

    Karl Marx’s ideas of public ownership of land, banks, enterprises and...

  • April 25, 2021

    What’s wrong with the GDP?

    Each year towards the end of May we look to the Federal Bureau of...

  • March 17, 2021

    Learning from China

    Modern China is in many ways a remarkable success: within a generation it...

  • December 24, 2020

    Measuring the Earth’s circumference

    At a time when quantitative skills are vital for dealing with the...

  • March 14, 2020

    Penny wise

    The high-profile inauguration yesterday of the Data4Pakistan portal...

  • March 16, 2019

    The beauty of Pi

    On Pi Day, March 14 – a date that coincides with Pi’s best known...

  • February 06, 2019

    An end to inequality

    Inequality in our country is now a lot worse than it has ever been in our...

  • May 10, 2017

    A silent emergency

    Seven-year-old Samiullah solves simple arithmetic progressions in his...