Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) pledged a comprehensive package of economic, administrative, and social reforms, focusing on economic revival, governance improvements, energy sustainability…
HYBRID set-ups have internal power struggle built into them. Like me, if you find some of the statements confusing — signalling differences of opinion within the top tiers of the…
WHETHER countrywide elections are held within three months to coincide with the elections to the Punjab Assembly, after its dissolution, or separately on the completion of the term of the…
A SIZEABLE splinter within the military-led establishment is demanding that Imran Khan, as its former creation, deserves a second stint in power. Fractures have cascaded downwards and split the superior…
NOW that it is all quiet on the you-know-what front, attention is focused on the political chessboard. Imran Khan is in no mood to relent and is now trying to…
IMRAN Khan is down but not out. This, it seems, is the emerging consensus since he vacated Prime Minister House only to inhabit the jalsa gah. Political conversations in Islamabad…
The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Ishaq Dar, labelled delays in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) disbursements under agreed loans as “sabotage”. “I was in the last government for…
It is great to see the pragmatism shown by Mr Ishaq Dar earlier this month in the matter of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Taking out – or trying to take out…
The manifesto of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) contains a set of key macroeconomic targets from 2023-24 to 2028-29. This is the five-year duration of any newly elected government after…
The markedly different perceptions of the state of the Pakistan economy today between PML-N’s stopgap finance Minister Miftah Ismail (stopgap as his appointment both times was subject to Ishaq Dar’s…
