Statesmanship demands maintaining a delicate balance between economy and politics. Unfortunately, the scales world over have become excessively skewed towards politics. Last week, British Prime Minister Truss announced her intention…
At one point during the budget speech, the difference between Ishaq Dar and his predecessors became fairly apparent. The finance minister was in the middle of a somewhat unnecessary tribute…
The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) first quarter review of the 6.4 billion dollar Extended Fund Facility (EFF) on its website maintains that "risks to the outlook are tilted to the…
The PML-N manifesto promises have clearly taken a back seat to Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar's economic policies on two counts: the begging bowl is not only out and strengthened…
The Sharifs of London have miscalculated badly, but the costs of the miscalculation and the disas-Dar being unleashed on the economy are not going to be borne by them. Nor…
They say the night is darkest before the dawn. On Monday, it couldn’t have gotten darker—somewhere, someone in place of authority, ensured it, maybe through incompetence or worse. Don’t be…
The rupee-dollar parity during two tenures of Ishaq Dar as finance minister (2013-17 and 27 September 2022 to date) has invariably been a subject of general distress, including all the…
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar must have spent the last few days, since the zero-interest surprise disappeared from the headlines, waiting for the mullah lobby to come rallying behind him; lifting…
PML-N’s (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s) finance czar and rupee-stabiliser, Ishaq Dar, is back in the saddle. Many describe him as Pakistan’s economic messiah, while others are worried that he will wash…
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s words and actions since his return last week have reminded many of PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) government’s last finance minister, Shaukat Tarin. In fact, in many ways,…
