Harmful taxation of IT/telecom sectors
The Pakistan telecom sector contributes steady inflow of heavy tax collections under major heads like Activation Tax, GST/FED, the PTA fee & charges and others. The PTA has been advocating…
Inflation and growth
While inflation has been caused primarily by the pandemic-led recession that fed into supply cuts, and the return of which was naturally stickier than the rise in demand as vaccine…
Democracy in name?
THE subject of democracy is a most confused and confusing debate, where it is easy to confuse form with substance, concept with practice and illusion with reality. The fundamental concept…
Don’t try to reinvent the wheel
At the fag-end of last month and with the next general elections only 23 months away, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, in a manner of reinventing the wheel, unveiled a three-year…
Towards revitalizing exports
Pakistan economy is doomed to dig deep into the unenviable economic black hole of stagflation unless government manages to revitalize exports immediately through the proper homework to develop targeted policy…
Barometer of climate ambition
PAKISTAN has just submitted its updated Nationally Determined Contributions to the UN’s climate change secretariat, making some clear and ambitious commitments. Pakistan’s NDC is perhaps one of the most action-oriented…
Re-engaging America
PAKISTAN-US relations in recent years have derived largely from Washington’s China and India policies, the Afghanistan war and US national security concerns related to international terrorism. And they have not…
Climate catastrophe
CLIMATE change can push the world over the cliff if urgent action is not taken. As a threat multiplier, it can lead to poverty, insecurity and a breach of human…
Online Academics and COVID-19
The menace of COVID – 19 is threatening not only the lives and economic well being of people but placing the academic careers of the generation currently enrolled in educational…
China’s leadership transition – I
China's National People's Congress (NPC) on March 5, 2018 approved President Xi Jinping's second five-year term in office. Earlier Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's historic reforms, had two five-year…
