Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in a televised speech this Tuesday cleared the air on IMF (International Monetary Fund) delays, saying that assurances of external financing from three friendly countries…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fascinating technological development that is significantly impacting our present-day lives. Given AI’s potential, there is a need to carefully examine what is being entrusted to…
The world's top economies have ramped up spending on the fight to eradicate modern-day slavery, according to new United Nations figures, but campaigners said businesses needed to play a greater…
I am 35 years old. That means I have lived through loadshedding summers, textbook shortages, the 2005 earthquake, the 2010 floods, terror attacks that emptied our streets and the quiet…
The rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has brought us to another civilisational crossroads. As we head towards another wave of ‘creative destruction’, in Schumpeter’s terms, the rules seem to…
Recently, two global headlines captured the world, revealing a truly remarkable transformation unfolding before our eyes. Amazon announced plans to lay off over 30,000 employees, marking the largest corporate downsizing…
PAKISTAN and its love for miracle fixes. In the 1960s, it was the Green Revolution. In the 1990s, independent power plants and in the 2000s, telecoms with a side of…
ENJOYING the impunity it has in conducting a genocide in Gaza and ethnic-cleansing in the West Bank, the apartheid state of Israel violated Qatar’s sovereignty when its warplanes attacked a house in a residential area,…
Within economy, relegation of Ministry of Finance (MOF) to purely financial matters, and instead forming a ‘Ministry of Economy’ (MOEC) as the main ministry for the overall economic policy. Moreover,…
Global markets are telling conflicting stories about the possible longer-term impact of US tariffs on growth, a schism that investors say means either stocks or bonds could see a steep…
