Rating agencies and Pakistan’s response
There are three major international credit rating agencies providing investors information about bond and debt instruments and sovereign debt - Fitch, Moody’s Investor Services and Standard and Poor - which…
The secret of Japan’s success [Part – II]
Japan and Pakistan have been enjoying good diplomatic relations for decades now. Development cooperation between the two countries started in 1954, and since then, Japan has provided assistance to Pakistan…
Global challenge – and response
Needless to emphasize, Covid-19 poses an existentialist challenge to the global community and it was an inescapable imperative for it to mount a well-coordinated response to check and mitigate its…
Response to MoF: Prospects for 2015-16
The Business Recorder has published on the 2nd of February a reply by the Economic Advisor of Ministry of Finance (MOF) to the report by the Institute for Policy Reforms (IPR) on…
Response to IDPs
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) claims of extending all possible help to the IDPs migrating from North Waziristan due to the ongoing Zarb-i-Azb operation are being challenged by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Isaaf…
NA health panel grills top officials of PNMC, PMDC
National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination on Monday grilled top officials of the Pakistan Nursing and Midwifery Council (PNMC) and Pakistan Medical and Dental…
Companies warn Trump: Census citizenship question could be costly
An array of the US companies have told the Trump administration that a citizenship question on the 2020 Census would harm business if it leads to an undercount of immigrants,…
What will 2025 bring?
IT has been a heady year that we are saying farewell to. A hard-fought stability was brought to the economy in 2024, but at a steep cost. Politics had to be ended,…
Investing in the youth
OVER the last decade, media and political discourse have increasingly focused on youth. The so-called youth bulge has been heralded as a potential demographic dividend — a transformative force for…
Kurram’s path to peace
Kurram, a district nestled at the strategic crossroads of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and key tribal territories, has been embroiled in land disputes and tribal conflicts for decades. The roots of these…
