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Has Ishaq Dar lost his magic?

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…

Ishaq Dar’s Value

Ishaq Dar’s value

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…

Begging Bowl, Inflation And Ishaq Dar! – II

Begging bowl, inflation and Ishaq Dar! – II

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…

Begging Bowl, Inflation And Ishaq Dar! – I-

Begging bowl, inflation and Ishaq Dar! – I-

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…

Another economic disas-Dar

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…

The darkness deepens

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…

PKR in Daristan

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…

Dar sb waits, and waits

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…

Dar should tread carefully

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…

Dar’s contentious dynamism

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,…