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A national compact for 2025

THE new year starts with the country facing multiple challenges that need to be met in a politically calm environment. The complex nature of overlapping challenges and the fact that…

2025 – A year of more challenges

The year 2025 starts with many carry-forward challenges from last year’s and further add to new challenges in the years ahead. The plight of the poor of the country has…

2025: Economic challenges meeting political crossroads

2024 was a year of economic stabilization for Pakistan. Inflation plummeted, the exchange rate showed marginal improvement, and interest rates were nearly halved. However, employment creation and economic growth remained…

Unpacking IT challenges

The Information Technology (IT) sector holds immense potential to transform businesses and create new job markets for entrepreneurs. IT encompasses a broad range of areas, including software development, hardware manufacturing,…

Year of unmet challenges

2024 saw intensifying political tensions and turmoil in Pakistan, which sharpened polarisation in the country and made political stability elusive. The year was marked by democratic regression and increasing autocratisation as the…

National security policy needs revisit

This is the second of a two-part series detailing the 2020 National Security Policy’s (NSP) ill-advised focus on economic diplomacy – ill-advised as the world moves from unipolarity to multipolairty.…

Trump’s economic nationalism

Right-wing populist Donald Trump’s decisive victory in the 2024 US presidential election is expected to fuel a resurgence of economic nationalism in the US. The 21st century has witnessed a…

Export industry: challenges and solutions

It is heartening to note that a multinational company operating in Pakistan has successfully showcased and set an example that the challenges faced by the export industry in the country…