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OPINION: Leadership imperatives for 2026

2025 was a year of leadership exposé. A year of revelations. A testing year. A year of stress. A year of burnout. An overwhelming year. It has been...

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Andleeb Abbas

OPINION: Remembering Dr Akhtar

Pakistan has lost one of its most credible, principled, and globally respected economic minds with the passing of Dr Shamshad Akhtar. For many of...

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Yousaf Hussain

Reconciliation: an option never to lose

I had just entered college, and in those growing years, I would passionately watch every single speech and press conference of President (later...

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Sirajuddin Aziz

OPINION: Pakistan’s failing harvest: a crisis by design

Pakistan’s agriculture sector is not underperforming by accident. It is failing by deliberate policy choice, entrenched political capture, and...

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Fazeel Asif

Sindh: the PPP route

It is easy to be cynical about governance in Pakistan. We are used to a cycle of ambitious groundbreakings followed by stalled machinery, cost...

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Nadir Nabil Gabol

Remembering Dr Akhtar

Pakistan has lost one of its most credible, principled, and globally respected economic minds with the passing of Dr Shamshad Akhtar. For many of...

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Yousaf Hussain

OPINION: Who is making money in Pakistan?

There are reports of factory closures, at least 150 over the past two years with the majority of the remaining units operating at 50 percent...

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Anjum Ibrahim

OPINION: PIA privatisation: price, politics, and basic arithmetic

PIA privatisation has triggered the usual storm of outrage, suspicion, and conspiracy theories. Everyone has an opinion on whether the airline was...

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Ali Khizar

Pakistan Outlook-2026

In certain areas, there are clear signs of substantial growth that have contributed to the recovery of Pakistan’s economy. A significant boost...

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Asad Rizvi

PARTLY FACETIOUS: The gap between the leadership’s narrative and reality

“There is one very obvious lesson that should be learnt and yet not being learnt.” “Hmmmmm.” “What?” “Few understand the widening gap between the...

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Anjum Ibrahim

OPINION: PIA: curtain falls on state ownership

After an intense and unusually well-publicised competitive second round of bidding, the consortium led by Arif Habib Group has acquired 75 percent...

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Farhat Ali

OPINION: Benazir: a symbol of democracy, resistance & people’s politics

In the political history of Pakistan, there are names that are not only names, but the name itself is the representation of a complete era, a...

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Sharjeel Inam Memon

OPINION: Stray dogs and manholes

Even as I write this article I can hear the barking of dogs in the distance. There has been such a solid growth of the dog population over the...

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Zia Ul Islam Zuberi

Growth model and IMF conditionalities – IV

In the ‘IMF [International Monetary Fund] Country Report No. 25/332’ it could be seen that for reaching the ‘binding’ primary surplus target the...

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Dr Omer Javed