Flawed decisions
On October 4, complying with the commitments made to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF), the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCP) approved the privatisation of…
An obsolete agency
Do we need a Planning Commission (PC) in today’s world? In fact, do we really need a plan? Why should we plan and what? In today’s world, serious questions arise…
Decade of lost growth
Pakistan’s growth performance over the last five years (2008/09-2012/13) has been dismal at best. Economic growth has averaged 2.9 percent per annum compared with 6.6 percent per annum during the…
Systemic reforms
The PM has announced his six-point agenda for not only the youths of this country but also to kick start the economy. Cynics might say one thing or another but…
Moment of opportunity
In setting his priorities at the outset of his tenure Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif emphasized that the economy and energy crisis would receive his urgent attention, as would the removal…
Sell-off of PSM
Pakistan Steel Mills, known to be the country's largest industrial unit incorporated in 1968 at a total cost of Rs 24.7 billion, with an annual designed production capacity of 1.1…
One year after Baldia fire
Over the last year, accidents in garment factories in Pakistan and Bangladesh have exposed not only the hazardous conditions in which garment industry workers toil, but also the human price…
Memo from the US…Wasting a crisis
The Nawaz government had a rare opportunity to fix the financial crisis bedevilling state-owned entities (SOEs). Did he not promise to appoint people of merit to head these SOEs? With…
Capital suggestion…88 days
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) will make or break the PML-N’s economic agenda. On June 5, Nawaz Sharif took oath of the prime ministerial office. That’s a total of 88 days. SOEs…
‘Qarz burhao, mulk bigarho
In 1997 the slogan of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) was 'Qarz Utaro, Mulk Sanwaro' [retire debt, adorn country], which is reversed in 2013 as all efforts are underway to increase…
