{"id":217975,"date":"2026-04-07T08:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217975"},"modified":"2026-04-07T08:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T08:47:58","slug":"pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=217975","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Where Politics and Economics Collide?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American economist Thomas Sowell wrote that \u201cthe first lesson of economics is scarcity.\u00a0There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is\u00a0to disregard the first lesson of economics\u201d. In public debate, politics and economics are often treated as distinct spheres&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pakistantoday.com.pk\/2026\/02\/12\/pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American economist Thomas Sowell wrote that \u201cthe first lesson of economics is scarcity.\u00a0There is never<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide.jpg",696,339,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide-300x146.jpg",300,146,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide.jpg",640,312,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide.jpg",640,312,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide.jpg",696,339,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide.jpg",696,339,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide.jpg",696,339,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide.jpg",696,339,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/217975-pakistan-where-politics-and-economics-collide-590x339.jpg",590,339,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}