Monetary policy and economic ground realities
In its most recent monetary policy statement (MPS), released on September 16 by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), the policy rate has been kept unchanged at 11 percent due to…
Flawed monetary policy
AFTER reducing the policy rate to 11 per cent in May 2025, the State Bank of Pakistan’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has since kept the rate unchanged in its meetings…
SBP’s over-cautious and lopsided monetary policy
In their August 2024 published article ‘Understanding the international rise and fall of inflation since 2020’ in the ‘Journal of Monetary Economics’, three writers from the Research Department of International…
NA committee recommends increasing MDCAT weightage for admissions
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Health has suggested reducing the weightage for board exams and giving greater value to the marks obtained in the Medical and Dental Colleges Admission…
HEC’s executive director shown the door on evaluation committee’s report
The Higher Education Commission’s (HEC) governing body has removed Executive Director (ED) Dr Ziaul Qayyum from his position over “poor performance”, two years before the completion of his tenure. The announcement…
Committee formed to propose model for KP’s own HEC
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa higher education department on Monday constituted a high-level committee to propose a model for setting up a provincial higher education commission, detailing its structure, functions and governance. …
Policy rate unchanged
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), met under the chairmanship of the Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on 10 March 2025, and decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at…
MPC clearly in a dilemma about how to respond to policy rate question
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is set to announce its monetary policy decision today. Over the past six reviews, the central bank has slashed interest rates by a cumulative…
Senate committee supports revival of student unions
A Senate panel on Friday called for restorations of student unions in the country. Besides, other agenda items the issue of revival of student unions was discussed in the Senate Standing…
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.…
