The first IMF review
The first IMF Review on a quarterly basis has been completed of the three-year Extended Fund Facility to Pakistan. The second installment of approximately $450 million has also been received.…
The first IMF review
The first IMF Review on a quarterly basis has been completed of the three-year Extended Fund Facility to Pakistan. The second installment of approximately $450 million has also been received.…
Taxing times
EVER SINCE I began reading newspapers, I can recall that every new government — elected or military — blamed the outgoing one for the fiscal mess it had inherited. It’s…
Between livelihood and justice
What’s more important: rozi (livelihood) or justice? Rozi is all important, certainly more important than abstract and elusive concepts like justice. In some cases, your rozi may be tied to…
The bubble of life
A small number of us live within protected bubbles that keep us apart from the world outside. Those inside the bubble have access to luxuries of all kinds, including education…
America revisits ‘Pizza Bomber’ mystery with new Netflix series
As bank heists in America go, this was one of the weirdest: in 2003, a pizza delivery man walks into a bank with a bomb around his neck and a…
Time to reflect
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) a World Bank sister Organization in damages suit filed by Turkish company Karkey Karadeniz Electrik Uretim AS awarded around US$ 800 million…
Charlottesville and beyond
Unequivocally opposing white supremacists in all their manifestations: Ku Klux Klan, Nazis and militias should be a moral reflex. Terms like ‘white nationalism’ and ‘Alt-Right’ are fuzzy euphemisms. Blunt clarity…
Not an uplifting spectacle
Think for a moment of the Egyptian judge who hanged himself because he was facing corruption charges. May his soul rest in peace…at least he had a sense of honour.…
The power albatross
In April 2008 as the world oil prices crossed the $140 per bbl mark the oil-based high priced Independent Power Producer (IPP) model came home to roost. The model protected…
