Rising Kashagan output weighs on Kazakhstan’s CPC oil price
One of the world's fastest growing crude streams, Kazakhstan's CPC, is battling to find new buyers in a market saturated with light grades and with core European customers reluctant to…
Evolving power dynamics
Pakistan’s northern and northwestern borders are once again witnessing evolving power dynamics that have both regional and global strategic implications. The new power game alignments are increasingly shaped by a…
How to appoint arbitrators
Arbitration as a means to resolve a dispute between parties has gained global traction for many decades. Its popularity as a dispute resolution mechanism in the commercial sphere has gained…
Global economy: China anchor of stability
Amid numerous challenges faced by the global economy, China, as the world’s second-largest economy, continues to serve as an “anchor of stability” and “source of momentum” for global economic development,…
China at 75 – and beyond
On October 1, the People’s Republic of China completed 75 years of its establishment. These 75 years have seen China shake off rampant poverty and backwardness to become a major…
The case for a constitutional court
Parliamentary legislative competence is the authority of a parliament to amend or repeal laws and the constitution. Under Article 239, Pakistan’s parliament can alter the constitution with a two-thirds majority.…
IPPs: currents of discontent
With the recent increase in electricity tariffs, there is renewed debate over the rationality of capacity payment charges (CPC) to independent power producers (IPPs). Previously, only a few voices raised…
Justice beyond the courtroom
A father plays with his two children in one of the two freshly mowed lawns between the grey structures of the main building and the Chief Justice Complex of the…
Do we need a Charter for Change?
In public policy literature, ‘policy silos’ describe the phenomenon where policies are developed in isolation from other policy areas and without coordination. This term highlights the negative consequences of fragmented…
Energy traders, shippers grapple with Red Sea fallout
To avoid the Red Sea, the supertanker Grand Bonanza set out early this month on a roughly 40-day journey carrying 1.8 million barrels of Abu Dhabi crude for TotalEnergies from…
