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For decades the public at large has been agitating in futility against electricity tariff hikes and power cuts. This summer, bitten by IMF’s...
The IMF and Pakistani authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on a 37-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement of about dollar 7...
The Pakistan budget 2024-25 appears to have largely satisfied the IMF (International Monetary Fund), prompting it to move on with the 25th IMF...
The budget 2024-25 formulated to qualify for the 25th IMF programme has been passed by the parliament. Now the IMF bailout programme is very much in...
In the first of its kind, the salaried segment of the Pakistani society has decided to go public with their grievances. A group of professionals,...
BRICS is an acronym that represents an association of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. These countries...
Amidst protests by the opposition, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb rolled out with relative calm the national budget 2024-25 at the National...
The much-trumpeted high level official visit of prime minister Shehbaz Sharif to China is at its tail end. It is a high-level visit with high...
The investment potential arising out of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the UAE’s $10 billion investment pledge, and Saudi Arabia’s $5...
Professor Adnan Khan, Chief Economist at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK in a recent statement to the Pakistan media...
The US has warned of potential sanctions for any country considering business deals with Iran hours after India signed a 10-year contract with Iran...
Among many sectors of fiscal drain, the circular debt of the energy sector is one area on the economic landscape of Pakistan which is acting as a...
Shehbaz Sharif made some honest appraisal of the current governance and economic challenges faced by his government at the World Economic Forum...
Karachi, being Pakistan’s premier industrial and financial centre and home to 90 percent of the multinational corporations operating in Pakistan,...
With Pakistan embroiled in an acute burden of debt, to the extent that 70 percent of its revenue is diverted to pay off debt, there is no way but the...
‘All hands on deck for education of the poor is the call of the day.’ Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif went to the extent to declare an ‘education...
Forbes has published its list of ‘World Billionaires ranking for 2024’. The much touted is the list of 200 richest people of the world. The...
It has been argued by many political and economic analysts that the 24th IMF programme could usher in a tsunami of inflation in the country with...
Announcing the staff-level agreement on the successful completion of the 23rd short-term facility, the IMF (International Monetary Fund) has confirmed...
President Xi Jinping of China in a congratulatory message to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stressed that “China and Pakistan should continue their...
Father of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah in his speech at Ziarat, Balochistan, in 1948 stated that: “We Musalmans in general and young...
With the unfolding of a new chapter in Pakistan’s checkered political history, the much turbulent and fought for milestone of holding the elections...
Breaking a two-week impasse following elections, Pakistan’s political power-brokers, after extensive negotiations, have reached an agreement to form...
The election held on Feb 8th in Pakistan threw up a number of surprises with a significant shift in the country’s political landscape. The election...
Circular debt in the energy sector is a mystery which no government could so far unfold. Over the last two decades it has rolled over from one...
Pakistan’s ranking on the global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), announced this week by the Berlin-based corruption watchdog, Transparency...
A passport serves as a symbol of a nation’s global standing and the level of respect it commands in the international community. It is a key...
Pak-Arab Refinery Company (PARCO) reported this week an incident of oil theft that purportedly took place at a government pipeline at Karachi’s Bin...
The general elections in Pakistan in February 2024 would soon be followed by the general election in India. Both have parliamentary form of...
There are laws that provide a foundation for the protection of ‘ Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), but the laws are weak and their enforcement or...
That the growing political uncertainty and institutional imbalances are adversely affecting the country’s perception is a fact. This time it is no...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been crucial in supporting developing economies to participate in global trade by facilitating the flow of...
Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar in a statement this week has described the energy sector as “a nightmare for the country” mainly...
The recent success on IMF (International Monetary Fund) funding, a bullish stock market, the rupee value stabilizing against dollar, the jubilation in...