For decades, Pakistan has been grappling with the challenge of both violent and non-violent extremism. While military operations have significantly weakened militant networks, the deeper ideological roots that fuel extremism…
THE government has announced another policy related to countering extremism; it contains the same flowery words, borrowed jargon, hollow phrases, and unfeasible implementation plans as several policies before it. One…
Decades ago, when this scribe was a student of Botany, at the Government College, his ecology professor had noted “they imposed an engineering solution onto a biological/ecological problem”. He was…
The phoenix is a mythological bird that after living 100 years bursts into flames and turns to ashes. It is painful to witness but the Pakistani economy appears turning to…
Last week, CFA Society Pakistan conducted a seminar in Karachi where two former Deputy Governors of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) were invited and they candidly discussed the exchange rate…
With collaboration from an investment professional. As is widely understood, Pakistan is facing the dual dilemma of foreign debt servicing that has placed her foreign exchange reserves under significant pressure,…
Interest rates in Pakistan are almost at historic highs and still the country is running negative real rates on both current and forward-looking inflation. Some believe that the interest rates…
Last week, the media was abuzz about SAPM on power and petroleum Tabish Gauhar’s letter that he addressed to his minister Hammad Azhar. The gist of the ‘leaked’ letter and…
With the single-minded national focus on the live discussions going on all through last week in the media over the on-going process of change of guard at the General Headquarters…
The purpose of this article is to outline the magnitude of Pakistan's burgeoning housing crisis caused by population growth, rapid urbanisation, and the resulting mushrooming of slums in large cities…
