Our commercial men and women abroad
Welcome aboard, all 41 of you who have been chosen to look after our export interests abroad. Bright young, and not so young, people, brimming with the desire to break…
Hong Kong-Shenzhen stock link no quick fix for MSCI entry
Connecting the giant stock markets of Hong Kong and Shenzhen is unlikely to fast-track the inclusion of Chinese shares in a major investment benchmark index as foreign access to China's…
An opportunity for peace
The ambience of amity generated by the interaction between the prime ministers of Pakistan and India followed by meetings between the two countries’ national security advisors and the visit of…
A few days in India
When you have no desire to develop relations even on Track I, it is indeed a daydream to have any hope of success for any Track II dialogues. I was…
The crime of energy
The global energy scenario is undergoing profound changes on several accounts. First, the oil prices have dropped, making it relatively uneconomical to invest in new oil shale oil and gas…
Edible oil & amp; vanaspati industry in Pakistan
I have been associated with Ghee and Vanaspati Industry since 1965 when I joined one of the leading manufacturers of ghee/vanaspati in Karachi and subsequently became the Chairman of Pakistan…
Meaningless Economic Performance
The Executive Board of the IMF on December 18, 2015 completed the ninth review of Pakistan's economic performance under a 36-month programme supported by an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement.…
‘Misperceptions of IMF’: MoF’s response
Dr Hafeez A Pasha has written an article: "Misperceptions of IMF" published in Business Recorder October 5th 2015. It stated that the executive board of the IMF must be thanked once again…
Risks and issues governing emerging markets
In the recent past we have experienced the emerging market exuberance, rightly so, because in the last decade the size of emerging markets economics stood doubled showing a growth rate…
Intervention amplified losses for ETFs tracking China mainland
Just as China shows that its domestic stock market can be something of a one-way street - investors can put money in, but not take money out - the biggest…
