After reigning supreme for over seven decades, exercising uncontested political and financial dominance worldwide, the World Bank Group (WB) and IMF have now a competitor known as Asian Infrastructure Investment…
Xi Jinping’s visit to Pakistan two weeks ago was the first to the country by a Chinese president since that of his predecessor Hu Jintao in 2006. It had originally…
We have lost count of experiments conducted to resolve challenges confronted by our economy. However, except interludes of relative stability, the economy has kept faltering with breathing space provided by…
THE summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation took place against the backdrop of significant geopolitical upheaval. This has been driven largely by President Donald Trump’s disruptive policies, which have upended…
For decades, Pakistan’s government and bureaucratic systems have been viewed as mired in red tape and resistant to innovation. The country’s administrative machinery, both within and from outside the country,…
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…
Consider a country where utter poverty led to people starving to death. With limited natural resources and more than 7,000 individuals per square kilometres of population, as against Pakistan's around…
The sudden change in the US President’s plan to implement tariffs starting March 4 instead of next month has unsettled the markets, leading traders to reevaluate their risk portfolios and…
The IMF and the World Bank have been pivotal in bailing out Pakistan, given the country's economic challenges and developmental needs in recent years. Historically, Pakistan has entered into 23…
Driven by rejuvenated public sentiments for a change, the Bangladesh’s incumbent government is gradually but consistently moving out of the Indian orbit through measured and calculated steps — which many…
