Pakistan capital market reforms: The road ahead — I
With the Pakistan stock market rebounding over the last several weeks there is a sense of euphoria amongst market participants. And rightly so, as the long doldrums in the market…
Pakistan capital market reforms: The road ahead — II
Front-line regulator cost compensation: It should be noted that the primary objective of PSX, i.e., facilitating capital formation in the country, cannot really be achieved unless there is thriving trading…
Reforms for progress
THE current mood in Pakistan reflects a fractured society. Will our political leadership remain mired in confrontation? Are we reaping the harvest of hate unleashed by vendetta, bigotry, and falsehood?…
Institutional strengthening?
A RECURRING theme during the PTI’s seven-year-long election campaign was the importance of strengthening institutions. The accusation was that overt centralisation, rule by fiat, and failure to accord autonomy in…
Budget 2019-20: Essential reforms
In this article, we are presenting some fundamental institutional/structural reforms in tax system prior to announcement of budget 2019-20. For the last many decades, the main emphasis of every budget…
Reforms and the police force
The PTI’s biggest achievement was the improvement made in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police under the KP Police Act, 2017. Imran Khan has attributed this success to former PPO Nasir Khan…
Different reforms
In keeping with its election promises, the PTI government has constituted a number of task forces to bring about the much-needed changes to improve the functioning of the government. However,…
Different reforms
In keeping with its election promises, the PTI government has constituted a number of task forces to bring about the much-needed changes to improve the functioning of the government. However,…
Economic reforms: Part-XXIII
The Social Action Programme (SAP) remained in operation until the close of the last millennium. The Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s and the protests in Seattle to push…
Reforms not politics
The victory of Imran Khan’s PTI in the July 25 elections has fostered hope that Pakistan may have turned the corner. People believe that the age of incompetence and greed…
