IMF review & state of economy
I expect an agreement on the review to come within this week, so, any day now. I can say that Pakistani authorities, the Minister of Finance, they deserve credit for…
STPF 2020-25: A review—I
Under the head “export diversification”, which is an oft repeated cliché in the vocabulary of Commerce Ministry, the Strategic Trade Policy Framework Review (STDF 2020-25) says that after conducting a…
Legislation and judicial review
Democracy in Pakistan has been interrupted by successive military interventions on four occasions. All three constitutions – 1956, 1962 and 1973 – promised parliamentary democracy. The preambles of the constitutions…
Economic growth has ‘devastating cost to nature’, review finds
Humanity’s unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a “devastating cost to nature” according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet. The…
Book Review: Blood Over Different Shades of Green
It would be a tremendous understatement to say that Pakistan has had an eventful history, both in the years leading up to 1947 and the years hence; it is almost…
Book Review: An intellectual life’s journey
Book: Jindriey: Tan Desaan Tera Tana: Burjwala ton Washington Author: Dr Manzur Ejaz Publisher: Wichaar Publishers; US, $15; Sahiwal, Rs 200; 2018 Dr Manzur Ejaz is familiar to the Pakistani audience through his…
Review: honour unmasked
Nafisa Shah’s work on the subject of honour killing spans over twenty years. She first wrote about this subject when she was working as a journalist some twenty years ago.…
KP finances: a review
Despite an apparently dynamic leadership of the PTI, KP continues to increase its dependence on federal transfers. Of the total provincial budgetary outlay of Rs603 billion, the province’s own revenue…
Historical burden
The phrase ‘abject surrender’ has been a recurrent feature of recent discussions on the Pakistani state. Not only has it come up in conversations concerning the state’s general inability to…
PBC: an appraisal
The government has launched a new scheme for mobilisation of foreign exchange resources – the ‘Pakistan Banao Certifications (PBC)’ with maturities of three and five years. These certificates can be…
