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Sakib BerjeesThe News International |
Pakistan does not suffer from a shortage of development spending. It suffers from a shortage of development discipline. For decades, successive...
There are industries that dominate headlines, and there are industries that quietly sustain nations. Pakistan’s Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)...
Relationships between nations are rarely measured by moments of warmth or periods of disagreement. They are ultimately judged by whether they continue...
The latest report by the World Bank has once again reignited a fundamental debate over Pakistan's fiscal federal structure. Its recommendations...
Few economic debates in Pakistan generate as much passion, confusion and political symbolism as Islamic banking. More than four decades after the...
As Pakistan enters another budget season, the national debate once again revolves around taxation, IMF conditionalities, fiscal deficits, debt...
Pakistan’s forthcoming budget is best understood not as a routine fiscal statement, but as the expression of an economy operating under prolonged...
Pakistan’s electricity crisis is widely misdiagnosed as a problem of insufficient generation capacity. In reality, it is a structural failure of...
Every rupee depreciation now carries an immediate and measurable cost: millions added overnight to Pakistan’s oil import bill. In recent weeks, that...
Pakistan’s economic trajectory remains tethered to the International Monetary Fund, and once again, the stakes could not be higher. The $7 billion...
Every education system eventually confronts a reckoning: the moment when diplomas no longer guarantee opportunity and degrees alone fail to unlock...
Wars in the Middle East are fought with missiles and drones, but their economic shockwaves travel through global oil markets. The latest escalation...
Every aircraft carrier sent to the Persian Gulf is one not sent to the Pacific. Every naval deployment in the Middle East ties up resources that might...
On a winter morning in Lahore, a government school teacher waits in line at a public hospital. Her classroom is cold, the library shuttered, and her...