Can Pakistan avoid economic collapse?
The looming spectre of a food crisis and economic instability poses a significant threat to Pakistan, as the nation grapples with alarming projections for the forthcoming decades. By the year…
How to avert economic collapse
The worst kept secret about the present economic crisis is that it has resulted from our rulers having saddled the people with a huge debt while harvesting its proceeds to…
An economic collapse?
LADIES and gentlemen, before the headline makes you uneasy, hold onto your horses. There is no harm in asking a question. Someone put this question to me: will our economy…
Economic collapse
What could be worse than floods that have displaced millions, killed thousands and destroyed huge swathes of farmland, a catastrophe the country will take years to recover from? Some people…
From economic crisis to collapse
In her article on the economy in the August 24 issue of The News, Dr Maleeha Lodhi has sounded a serious and timely warning about the looming economic crisis. The…
Pakistan’s contrarian economics
Pakistan is almost always discussed in the language of crisis. Every indicator is read as proof of failure. The public conversation rarely asks whether the story we keep repeating is…
Joint economic command
Across Asia, the Gulf and Africa, the fastest-growing states run their economies through a ‘Joint Economic Command’. Vietnam does it. South Korea does it. Rwanda, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, the…
Economic balance
THE core of the Holy Prophet’s (PBUH) movement was the economic and democratic organisation of society, because the fulcrum of the Quranic message is human integration on the principle of…
Tragic collapse of Pakistan’s bureaucracy
Once, Pakistan’s bureaucracy stood as a pillar of governance in the sixties, entrusted with the nation’s future. Today, that edifice is crumbling—its foundations weakened by decades of decay. A recent…
The collapse of a curriculum
That the so-called Single National Curriculum (SNC), introduced by the PTI government, was an exercise in futility is no longer news. Many critics, including me, have long highlighted its flaws.…
