Tsunami of price hikes
Pakistan has been ranked the world’s fourth most expensive country. Prices are skyrocketing, and no one knows when there will be an end to these hikes. Inflationary pressures are increasing…
Revamping price management
It’s almost every day that the Islamabad district administration publishes the rate list of fruits and vegetables on social media. People still always complain of retail shops overcharging shops by…
The slowdown in real economy
Over the past month, it seems that the feel-good factor has returned. The stock market is in a bullish run and the currency is relatively stable. There are some small…
Inflation out of control
Consumer price index (headline inflation) rose by 31.5 percent in February (up by 3.7 percentage points from January), core inflation by 17.1 percent year on year (urban) and 21.5 percent…
The mishandling of economy continues
Finance Division in the January 2023 Economic Update/Outlook noted that fiscal deficit July-November 2022 was 1169 billion rupees against the July-October figure cited in the December Update of 1266 billion…
Inflation: the fault is in ourselves
Inflation has reached politically untenable levels in the ongoing year, considerably higher than the high rates prevailing in previous years that were the cause of serious concern to the Khan…
Blaming others
The CIA has managed to penetrate the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS). According to the PBS, the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) year-over-year increased by 23.6 percent in February 2022. Under…
Crunch time
Imran Khan, having lost power, has adopted a strategy of delegitimizing institutions of the state including the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Election Commission of Pakistan and the military establishment.…
Tougher times ahead
Bad politics is bound to end in bad economics. Zero-sum is a situation in game theory in which former PM Imran Khan’s gain is equivalent to PM Shehbaz Sharif’s loss…
Economic impasse — yet again
The political impasse triggered by the Deputy Speaker’s 3 April ruling dismissing the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan by terming it unconstitutional alleging that it was backed by…
