Investors expect market selloff will slow, stretch and spread
This week’s huge selloff in global markets, triggered by an unwinding of yen-funded trades, is far from over and could eventually spread to credit markets, impair some banks and possibly…
Electronic cigarettes and devices: Menace spreading at warp speed
The health implications of electronic cigarettes, often referred to as e-cigarettes or vapes, have been the focus of extensive research and concern due to their potential health effects. While e-cigarettes…
Egypt faces external debt reckoning after borrowing spree
Egypt faces an increasingly tough task raising cash for foreign debt repayments after external borrowing quadrupled over the past eight years to help fund a new capital, build infrastructure, buy…
Jurisprudential void
JUDGES in Pakistan’s constitutional courts are not referred to as ‘textualists’ or ‘purposivists’ or ‘living constitutionalists’ or even ‘common-good constitutionalists’. These characterisations are immaterial. The judges, in our context, are…
