Export industry: challenges and solutions
It is heartening to note that a multinational company operating in Pakistan has successfully showcased and set an example that the challenges faced by the export industry in the country…
Existential threats, and need for 10-year economic, environmental, and epidemiological plan
The federal minister for planning and development, Ahsan Iqbal, reportedly indicated that the Prime Minister will soon launch a five-year economic plan. It needs to be understood that given the…
Italy targets climate activists in ‘anti-Gandhi’ demo clampdown
Blocking a road to protest inaction against climate change could soon be punishable with prison in Italy as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s hard-right government cracks down on demonstrations, even peaceful…
Home-grown economic plans
THE government recently formed a committee of eminent international and Pakistani economists to draft a home-grown economic programme. This article shows that there is little need for such a committee. There is…
Schools and climate
AS a mother of two school-going children, the record-breaking heatwave experienced in Karachi this year has heightened my concern about the growing impact of climate change on our children’s health,…
Climate action as equity
HOW can Pakistan overcome the credibility gap and attract international climate finance? Our economic managers failed to provide safe, profitable, and attractive opportunities to 1,700 potential investors in the country…
Two candidates, two foreign policies
The United States of America is in a tight presidential election. And tight elections are usually hard to predict. Yet one outcome is evident. Whoever wins, the country will remain…
Floods and mental health
THE theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day, which falls on Monday (Oct 10), is ‘Make mental health and well-being for all a global priority’. For Pakistan, the theme…
Assurances and realities
THE inevitable is happening. Having raised everyone’s hopes of some sort of massive dollar inflow under the so-called Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC), the government is now stealthily trying to…
Gender and disaster
PAKISTAN is undergoing the worst of catastrophes due to unprecedented monsoon rains and the ensuing floods. The exact losses and damage to crops, homes, livelihoods and animals cannot be ascertained…
