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THREE days before the prime minister met with the managing director of the IMF in Dubai, an unusual statement was made after a cabinet meeting. The...
IT was a strange newspaper on Wednesday, at least the business pages. Here was the State Bank, warning that growth can slip to as low as four per cent...
AS of writing this, the so-called mini budget has not been announced, so it is not possible to write about what it contains. For now, suffice it to...
UPON receiving the news that the country’s trade deficit has shrunk in December, Prime Minister Imran Khan is reported to have sighed with relief...
ONE headline from the current week has ricocheted around the national conversation in problematic ways. The headline was the one announcing that...
LITTLE by little the absurdities are piling up. It is becoming increasingly evident that this government has no capacity to tackle the subtle art of...
A SMALL triumph of some sort has been scored, it seems, by sentencing Nawaz Sharif to a prison term and unveiling a damning JIT report against Asif...
TWO big tests are looming for the PTI government. Both have similar timelines. One is the stabilisation programme to be signed with the IMF, something...
THE forthcoming Joint Cooperation Committee (JCC) meetings, scheduled to be held in Beijing from Dec 20, will be a big test for the new PTI...
HERE come the politics. The first devaluation undertaken by this government sent a jolt through the economy, briefly restored some confidence, before...
THERE is nothing sacrosanct about the 100-day timeline, and no government should be expected to deliver policy outcomes in that time period, unless...
THESE are some of the strangest IMF talks I have seen in a long time. I don’t recall the last time a finance minister declared Pakistan’s...
THE joint statement released at the end of the visit by Prime Minister Imran Khan to China last week was one of the most detailed and comprehensive...
LAST night was a rare spectacle. For far too long we have watched our country’s leadership quake at the knees when confronting the forces of bigotry...
A VERY interesting annexure in the latest State Bank’s annual report provides much-needed detail on the entry of Chinese firms in Pakistan’s...
NOW that the negotiations with the IMF are set to begin in earnest, some things are worth bearing in mind as the process moves along. Every government...
THE show is about to begin. Ever since the PTI government was sworn in, a situation had been developing and now it has matured. Thus far the...
Valuable time is being lost as the government decides what direction to take to address a deteriorating balance-of-payments situation. When the PTI...
ANY new government coming to power in Islamabad is well advised to steer clear from the advice offered by the bureaucracy. These are some of the most...
AND so it begins. All else that has been happening thus far, from auctioning buffaloes to commuting in choppers, has been pre-game entertainment....