Impact of the Pandemic | Editorial
The efforts of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) must be lauded for bringing out data about the effects of …
Read More‘Good News’ From IMF? | Editorial
Perhaps it would have been a little more reassuring if the news about the “good news” about the IMF program …
Read MoreClimate Change Challenge By Malik M Ashraf
PRESENTLY the world is focused on dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic which has destroyed lives, livelihoods and economies, thus posing …
Read MoreTowards a Polio-Free Pakistan in 2021 By Dr Rana Muhammad Safdar
Year 2020 will be remembered for the challenges it brought to global public health. Like others, Pakistan had to focus …
Read MoreIncreased Trade Deficit | Editorial
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the country’s trade deficit widened by 32 percent in December 2020. The …
Read MoreReforms in Bureaucracy By Kanwar Muhammad Dilshad
DEVELOPMENT on reforms in bureaucracy aiming at a depoliticized and corruption free bureaucratic structure would be discussed later on. Before …
Read MoreValued-Added Exports | Editorial
According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), our exports for December 2020 surpassed the 2019 figure. More importantly, the …
Read MoreSBP Report | Editorial
NEXT to the World Bank’s forecast on economic expansion in Pakistan during the present fiscal year, the State Bank’s growth …
Read MoreJourney to Freedom and Pakistan By Iftikhar Ahmad
In the middle of the Night, in dimly hazy Light, I was gently pushed around, on a very fast flight, …
Read MoreReopening Schools | Editorial
In a meeting conducted by education ministers in the country, it has been decided that all educational institutes will be …
Read MoreMatter of Reopening Schools | Editorial
Federal and provincial education ministers are set to put their heads together once again and decide what to do about …
Read MoreCircular Debt | Editorial
THE government’s plan to settle the outstanding dues of IPPs amounting to Rs450bn in three tranches is only the first …
Read MorePakistan’s New Year Foreign Policy Challenges By Kamran Yousaf
Year 2020 was tumultuous, to say the least, for Pakistan on the foreign policy front. Not just relationship with India …
Read MoreYear of Growth | Editorial
While the prime minister might have exaggerated the effect of recent upside surprises in export and inflation figures a little, …
Read MoreThe Foreign Policy Challenge By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Writing about Pakistan’s foreign policy is not easy. It is a function of Pakistan’s national policy which is determined by …
Read MoreEntering 2021 With Hope | Editorial
So the Covid-infected world lurches into 2021, with a mix of hope and concern related to the vaccine — like …
Read MorePipeline In The Works | Editorial
Pakistan’s foreign ministry appears to have correctly identified that the way forward is to build deeper economic and diplomatic cooperation …
Read MoreGoodbye 2020 By Inam Ul Haque
You are reading this column on the last day of 2020, a year that will go down in human history …
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