Most of the discussion about the economy in the mainstream media in Pakistan suffers from a universal malaise that afflicts conversation everywhere: the infantilisation of discourse. In the infantilised discourse…
The full text of budget speech of Minister for Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin that he delivered in the National Assembly on Friday, June 11, 2021 Bismillahir-Rehmanir-Rahim Mr. Speaker, 1.…
Before recapping the state of the economy in 2021, let us recall the World Economic Forum’s Global Crisis Report which was released in January this year. The report highlighted that…
he same coin but distinct as they are to be achieved through two different policy thrusts. Growth in the current year is to be achieved through a further extension of…
Agriculture contributes 24 percent to Pakistan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - directly, as well as indirectly through providing raw material to industry, notably textiles and sugar - two major large…
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is its latest monetary policy statement (MPS) increased policy rate by 150 basis points to 8.75 per cent, stating, among other things, that ‘risks related…
Pakistani administration after administration has implemented almost identical policies to incentivize two productive sectors - industry and agriculture through supportive monetary policy (cheap credit to target groups and/or intervention in…
LAST month, in an act of immense desperation, a father of four ended his life by jumping off the third floor of a Karachi shopping mall. Such events are not uncommon…
NOW that the evacuations from Afghanistan are complete and foreign troops have departed from the country, the real game begins. Up till now everything was in a state of limbo…
IN Tharparkar recently, a man killed three of his children by throwing them down a well, and then proceeded to take his own life. A report published by the Sindh…
