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Shahid Sattar Absar AliBusiness Recorder |
Power generation for July 2025 has declined by about 5 percent YoY, and nearly 10 percent below the pricing benchmark, reaffirming how ill-planned...
Despite poorly planned generation and transmission, stranded generation capacity, high capacity payments, technical and commercial losses, theft and...
Lessons and way forward The bottom line for consumers is that privatisation did not deliver reliable power, reasonable rates, or responsible...
Privatization was supposed to rescue Karachi’s power grid. However, two decades after handing Karachi Electric (KE) to private investors, the...
Over the past year, power tariffs in Pakistan have come down considerably and, contingent on key reforms being implemented over the next five years,...
While macroeconomic indicators have achieved feeble stability over the past year, on-the-ground conditions remain as hopeless as they were a year ago....
Pakistan has reached a staff-level agreement with the IMF, meaning the economy gets to stay afloat for another six months. However, behind the...
Export-led growth is the mantra these days, but government seems uninterested in actually facilitating it. The Export Facilitation Scheme (EFS) was a...
With an IMF (International Monetary Fund) determined to punish past misdemeanours and a government unwilling to embrace meaningful reform,...