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![]() Dr Farrukh SaleemThe News International |
After the IMF, electricity will be pricier by 20 per cent. After the IMF, gas will be pricier by 50 per cent. After the IMF, petrol and diesel will be...
We now have weeks – not months – left to make a decision. Failure to act will be disastrous. To be certain, Pakistan’s economy is manageable....
Congratulations PM Shehbaz Sharif – the 2023 International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan was a resounding success, exceeding all...
Everyone knows that the only way out now is the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Saudi Arabia’s assistance can delay the inevitable but Saudi...
A two-day Corps Commanders’ Conference was held at the GHQ from December 27 to December 28. On December 29, the PM met the COAS. On December 30, a...
Right now the most unenviable job in Pakistan is that of the finance minister – the most difficult, rather undesirable and quite unpleasant. The...
A roadmap is a “plan or a strategy intended to achieve a particular goal”. Our goal obviously is to stabilize the economy. Our goal obviously is...
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is out of dollars. We must bring back the IMF. Pakistan’s access to global capital markets has shut down (read: no...
Pakistan is not about to default on its debt obligations, neither external debt nor internal debt. A sovereign default is the “failure by a...
The only good news is that one uncertainty is out of our way. For the first time in the history of the Pakistan Army a Hafiz-e-Quran will be...
The Pakistan Army is our first line of defence against all external threats. And the Pakistan Army is our last option to manage internal civil unrest....
He is gaming that chaos in Pakistan will benefit him. He is gaming that anarchy in Pakistan will benefit him. He is gaming that a civil war in...
Every major ‘Long March’ costs Pakistan around Rs800 billion. Yes, there is a definite “link between unrest and subsequent economic...
We owe $55 billion to multilateral organizations. The IMF is in no mood for any concessions. The IMF wants fiscal consolidation. The World Bank is in...
Challenges: Pakistan is up against a whole host of formidable challenges. The three at the top of the list are: an economic crisis, extreme political...
On October 11, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its biannual World Economic Outlook, said, “global growth is expected to fall from 6 per...
Ishaq Dar is a miracle man. He has pulled the rupee from the abyss the rupee was falling into. Daronomics I (2013-17) gave us three things: a stable...
Muhammad Ishaq Dar, our 42nd finance minister, has prudently set his priorities: strengthening the rupee, reducing the rate of inflation and lowering...
Our politicians are all focused on who will be the next chief of army staff (COAS). Our politicians are all focused on who will appoint the next COAS....
Debt slavery is modern-day slavery. Debt slavery is debt servitude. Debt slavery means debt bondage. Debt turns debtors into indentured servitude....
Some leaders are power hungry in the extreme. Some leaders have an ‘insatiable desire for power’. Some leaders have an ‘ardent lust of...
The IMF Executive Board’s meeting was held on August 29 for Pakistan’s “combined 7th and 8th reviews; request for waivers of nonobservance of...
It has been 139 days since Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif won the support of a majority in parliament and took oath as the 23rd prime minister of...
On August 2, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) ruled: That “PTI was a willing recipient and beneficiary of prohibited funds to the tune of...
In 2018, Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, the-then Leader of the Opposition, proposed an ingenious idea-: a 'Charter of Economy’. In June 2022, PM...
On August 2, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), in a unanimous ruling, ruled that: the PTI received foreign funding; the PTI received...
Suicide is “death caused by injuring oneself with the intent to die”. Pakistan’s politics is killing Pakistan’s economy. As per the World Bank...