Unsettled times
DID anybody else find it strange that the government would postpone the announcement of its own budget in order to schedule a trip to China that, it says, is for garnering investments? A trip…
Politics in times of calamity
NOTHING could be more surreal than watching political leaders engaged in a sordid game of thrones while a large part of the country is devastated by torrential rains. Villages have been wiped…
Universities and the financial tightrope
In an oped in these pages a few weeks earlier (‘Defunding of public higher education’, March 29), I wrote about the review conducted by the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC)…
Challenging times
With the unfolding of a new chapter in Pakistan’s checkered political history, the much turbulent and fought for milestone of holding the elections in the country with the formation of…
Empowering financial inclusion
Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is a pioneering force, making breakthroughs in the field of finance and revolutionising the centrally dependent financial sector. It has already made a difference in several countries…
Pakistan, and international global financial order
In the recently released report ‘Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia’ by International Monetary Fund (IMF), one of its comments on Pakistan’s economy was ‘For… Pakistan, policy interest…
Financial crisis
Pakistan is currently going through the most severe economic crisis in its 75-year history, arguably worse than the period of economic sanctions following the 1998 nuclear tests. Financial experts agree…
Battling hard times?
A widely visible sense of deprivation across Pakistan in the run-up to Sunday’s ‘Eidul Azha’ was palpable with frequent reports of fast mounting inflation eating into the budgets of ordinary…
China’s financial sector: reform and development
Since the 18th National Congress of Communist Party of China (CPC), China has made impressive achievements in the financial sector and achieved new leapfrog growth in the banking and insurance…
Finding certainty in uncertain times
SRI LANKA is burning as headlines of economic meltdown and political turmoil dominate the news. Pakistan is no exception as the country has remained in the grip of a serious…
