Sakib Sherani
THE government has set a target for economic growth of 5.1pc for 2014-15. To achieve this, it is reportedly aiming ...
Published 30 May, 2014 07:18am
THE Ministry of Finance and FBR have begun to burn the midnight oil to give final shape to the federal budget for...
Published 16 May, 2014 05:58am
PAKISTAN has been on a ‘successful’ borrowing binge of recent. It has raised money from the IMF, multilateral...
Published 02 May, 2014 06:22am
A LOT is happening around us, both in our immediate neighbourhood, as well as further afield, that has not just...
Published 18 Apr, 2014 07:03am
WHAT ‘Grand Design’ will inform the formulation of next year’s budget? And what should that design be? By the...
Published 04 Apr, 2014 08:11am
HOW is the recent appreciation of the rupee linked, if at all, to the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) suing for...
Published 21 Mar, 2014 07:36am
What higher-order development objectives does Pakistan’s trade strategy and policy seek to achieve?
Updated 07 Mar, 2014 11:06am
Pakistan’s economy is showing signs of stabilising, amidst old as well as new challenges after many rough months.
Updated 21 Feb, 2014 02:11pm
PAKISTAN has made welcome overtures to India over the past three years. Peace and stability in South Asia is an...
Published 07 Feb, 2014 07:37am
NOT particularly fond of driving to Lahore, a journey of around four hours on the motorway, I have had to make this...
Published 24 Jan, 2014 07:46am
INEQUALITY is rising in Pakistan — in all its unsavoury dimensions. While we may have had a less-unequal society,...
Published 10 Jan, 2014 07:17am
BARRING its formative years, generations of Pakistani policymakers have comfortably operated with one ‘given’ or...
Published 27 Dec, 2013 08:39am
A NUMBER of worrying developments are playing out on the economic front. The government has sounded the retreat on...
Published 13 Dec, 2013 07:20am
MANY — maybe most — of our economic goals and targets are fuzzy and ambiguous. In the case of some critical...
Published 29 Nov, 2013 07:24am
AS Pakistan skirts dangerously close to another stretch of ‘heavy weather’ on the balance of payments front, the...
Published 15 Nov, 2013 06:59am
PAKISTAN’S latest IMF borrowing arrangement has generated a fair degree of public comment and discussion....
Published 01 Nov, 2013 07:26am
TWO recent developments have brought Pakistan’s latest IMF programme into sharp focus. The rupee has weakened...
Published 04 Oct, 2013 07:07am
ONE glaring inequity, among many, in Pakistan’s socio-economic framework is the unequal access to financial...
Published 20 Sep, 2013 07:30am
OVER the past few months, Pakistan’s economy has crossed three unhappy milestones of sorts:
Updated 06 Sep, 2013 07:23am
MORE often than not, history has been invoked by some of us (fellow Cassandras) to alert our countrymen through our...
Published 23 Aug, 2013 08:01am
