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The challenge of SOEs — II

The SOEs (State-Owned Enterprises) are generally being run at the whim of a chosen few, who are beholden to no system but instead their benefactors and appointers. In this environment,…

After the IMF tranche

On December 16, 2021 at a Hamdard University seminar where Dr Miftah Ismail was another speaker, I had said that Pakistan as a state is no longer a ‘going concern’.…

FDI: disastrous policies

This writer has been writing following in response to the news that the Government of Pakistan is considering disposing of LNG Terminal to Qatar. The decision is said to be…

Criticality of energy management

The current government has been able to secure one additional cargo from Qatar for December 2022 and January 2023 and another expected delivery of commitments made by Eni, which means…

The future of SOEs [Part – III]

A detailed and rigorous exercise was undertaken to examine each SOE based on the ownership rationale and its financial performance as explained earlier, and all the commercial SOEs were categorized…

The relief package

This week past the Prime Minister announced a series of populist measures that opponents decry are targeted to break the Opposition’s momentum to topple his government while his supporters argue…

Breaking the IMF shackles

Pakistan and the IMF – a love story where the partners seem to be inseparable. Or perhaps an addiction without which Pakistan can’t live. How it's spun, the fact that…

FBR’s Tax Directory 2018 Analysis — II

The province- and region-wise collection is in percentage without mentioning from which sum these percentages have been worked out. The percentages are as under: Punjab 35%, Sindh 45%, Balochistan 2%,…