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Dr Raania Ahsan

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OPINION: Clean energy in Pakistan: a matter of sovereignty, survival, and industrial competitiveness

As the world marks Clean Energy Day, Pakistan confronts an uncomfortable truth: its clean energy challenge is not a failure of technology or ambition....

05.02.2026 10

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Dr Raania Ahsan

OPINION: Pakistan’s mineral paradox

How Pakistan’s largest mineral discovery could either anchor a new industrial economy — or repeat a familiar extract-and-export cycle ...

02.01.2026 60

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Dr Raania Ahsan

OPINION: Mineral economic harassment: when state processes become an investor’s biggest risk

Pakistan’s mineral wealth remains trapped not beneath the earth — but within a governance maze that investors struggle to navigate. Pakistan sits...

10.12.2025 20

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Dr Raania Ahsan

Mineral economic harassment: when state processes become an investor’s biggest risk

Pakistan’s mineral wealth remains trapped not beneath the earth — but within a governance maze that investors struggle to navigate. Pakistan sits...

10.12.2025 30

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Dr Raania Ahsan

Facilitating failure: how governance broke Pakistan’s investment regime

Despite a growing web of institutions, Pakistan’s foreign investment framework remains a case study in governance without outcomes. Pakistan’s...

30.10.2025 40

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Dr Raania Ahsan

Industrial zones at a standstill

Even as Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb assures that the IMF “cannot impose terms against Pakistan’s national interest” and envisions an...

23.10.2025 30

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Dr Raania Ahsan