A labourer bends over as he carries packs of textile fabric on his back to deliver to a nearby shop in a market in Karachi on June 24, 2022. —...
This year, India’s growth rate is expected to reach 8 per cent – highest among all large countries. Its exports touched $670 billion, and it has...
The performance of Pakistan’s parliaments in discharging their key functions – enacting laws; reviewing/approving government spending and...
The PTI’s fourth budget, presented by its fourth finance minister, is mostly more of the same. Glancing through the last 10 pre-pandemic budget...
In a much-hyped recent pre-budget seminar, PML-N leaders touted their government’s performance, and berated the PTI’s performance in the last...
Every government in Pakistan, including the current one, has gone around the world with a begging bowl. We are now drowning in debt and stuck in an...
Pakistan has finally taken a bold step in the right direction with regard to the autonomy of the SBP. However, there are some serious flaws with the...
The writer is a former adviser to the World Bank.Pakistan’s corona-related ‘lives and livelihood’ crisis is grave. One was hoping that the...
The whole world is facing a single pandemic virus. We are facing two – the coronavirus and the fiscalitis virus developed in Washington by the...
The writer is a former adviser to the World Bank.Pakistan’s health crisis could explode , gravely crippling its society, economy and national...
For decades our leaders and elite have chosen to beg and borrow overseas, even to deliver the very basic functions of state. No wonder we are known...
The global economy is facing a plunge into uncharted waters. No one alive has experienced an economic nosedive this sudden. In country after...
Prior to the 2018 elections, the PTI promised heaven-like conditions and a bright future for when it came into power. It is close to a year now...
Although past IMF support prevented serious foreign exchange shortages, their ‘band-aid’ conditions enabled Pakistan’s irresponsible rulers to...
The print, electronic and social media narratives on the Kishanganga Dam would have the citizens believe that Pakistan’s water crisis is because...
President Mamnoon Hussain administering the oath of office to Justice Nasir-ul-Mulk as Caretaker Prime Minister at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. Former Prime...
The first-ever tax amnesty programme was announced in 300 BC in Egypt by Ptolemy V to please the priesthood and consolidate power. Since then, tax...
US President Trump’s humiliating tweet, which criticised Pakistan for not doing more to fight terrorism, highlights the flawed security and...
Wearing new shoes on budget day is an interesting tradition among Canadian ministers of finance. Some say that new shoes are meant to convey a new...
The political drama unfolding since the Panama leaks has much in common with similar events in human history. One such incident was when a mob...
There are very high expectations among the citizens that the proposed Supreme Court commission on corruption will yield far-reaching...
The outcome of the much hyped campaign to bring traders in the tax net has been disappointing. The goal was right, but the strategy was wrong. It...
The prime minister’s recent public rebuke of the National Accountability Bureau was rather irresponsible. Whatever the merits of...
The people of Pakistan view China as their best friend. This friendship has stood the test of time and emerged stronger through many challenges....
For decades, Pakistan has been facing self-created crises one after another – the latest being the petrol crisis. One major reason for the...
