KARACHI is the most developed economic and social administrative entity (district/ division) in Pakistan. In almost every single category of economic and social indicators, it tops the list of Pakistan’s districts. Although
Published15 Oct, 201212:06am
VISAS, peace accords, even trade treaties between India and Pakistan pale into insignificance without the icing on the cake, a visit by Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, to meet the President of Pakistan,
Published23 Sep, 201210:04pm
THE more one talks to Pakistan’s educated elite, the more one realises just how uneducated it is about many things, especially Pakistan’s economy. This is partly not their fault, for many economists are equally
Published03 Sep, 201203:05am
SOME economists have shown empirically, that land reforms in rural areas, may not lead to economic growth, and hence have argued that such reforms are not worth pursuing.
Published13 Aug, 201212:04am
THERE has never been any doubt, that for more than 50 years, from the mid-1950s to almost exactly the end of 2007, the single-most powerful and dominating institution in Pakistan’s body politic has been the
Published02 Jul, 201203:04am
EVERY government is a political government, even a military dictatorship, a fact which most analysts and commentators forget.
Published11 Jun, 201212:15am
BEFORE the budget of the next financial year is announced within the next few weeks, the Ministry of Finance is, as every year, expected to reveal its Economic Survey for the on-going fiscal year 2011-12.
Published21 May, 201212:15am
ELITES are taxing in any context and in any environment. In Pakistan, however, their behaviour makes matters doubly worse.
Published30 Apr, 201212:15am
IT seems impossible to imagine a society, even such as ours, without intellectuals. They have existed from time immemorial, in every society, at different layers of the social strata interacting with, and frequently changing, the course of history, and of
Published08 Apr, 201210:04pm
UNDOUBTEDLY, the biggest success of the present government as it celebrates four years in power is precisely that: it is actually in a position to celebrate having completed four years in power.
Published18 Mar, 201211:40pm
THE prime minister of Pakistan has asked his economic team, to prepare next year’s budget and to focus on “job creation for youth, provision of basic services like health, education, clean drinking water and civic
Published26 Feb, 201211:32pm
AS Pakistan achieved its series victory in the cricket fields near the sand dunes of the Gulf, perhaps for the first time ever beating the top-ranked side in a Test series, and that too without scandal, allegation or accusation, a
Published07 Feb, 201211:45pm
FOR a country which is notorious for not following the law, in any manifestation of its practices — constitutional, civic or corporate — we are now faced with a judicial invasion and an onslaught of lawyers and
Published20 Jan, 201212:10am
THE core political economy question facing Pakistan today is whether the military in Pakistan has a place in civilian affairs, or whether it should be permanently removed to the barracks and be made answerable to a
Published23 Dec, 201112:10am
JUST because one can make strong arguments that Pakistan’s economy is not as bad as many newspaper columnists make it out to be does not mean that the economy is in good shape and does
Published08 Dec, 201107:39pm
PAKISTAN`S economy continues to defy conventional logic. The general consensus and narrative continues to be that the economy has collapsed
Published24 Nov, 201108:53pm
IT is difficult to make sense of the incumbent government`s economic policy. There is little which exists as such — it is more a meandering through — but what does take place as policy, shows much confusion and the inability of the economic team to take k
Published10 Nov, 201108:28pm
DESPITE the confusion created by different actors, over whether India has been granted the MFN status by Pakistan, ‘actually’ or simply ‘in principle’, the general response and reaction has been extremely favourable and positive.
Published04 Nov, 201109:40pm
