Pakistan’s place in a globalized world
In an increasingly globalised world, we are geographically very beneficially at the crossroads separating South Asia with Central Asia and the Middle East, this must be converted to our geo-political…
High interest rates: a misguided policy for Pakistan
Pakistan's interest rates have intentionally been maintained at a high level for the past months, in a miscalculated effort to control inflation by means of a contractionary monetary policy. Although…
High speed rail in Pakistan
Lowari tunnel started in 1975 but stopped in 1976 due to paucity of funds. Recommenced in 2005 and but again stopped due to shortage of money; recommenced in 2013 and…
Power sector reforms: lessons from Turkey
Pakistan embarked upon a series of reforms in the power sector in the 1990s, more or less around the same time as Turkey. In Pakistan, these reforms started with the…
An Iran-Pakistan economic corridor?
There was this hope, however diffident, that Pakistan would take full advantage of India’s current willingness to re-establish relations with Islamabad and pend our age-old Kashmir policy until we had…
The West Pakistan model
Two excellent recent columns have marked the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Bangladesh – the first was by Dr Ishrat Husain in ‘Dawn’, and the second by Mihir Sharma…
FATF: no respite for Pakistan
Once again, our efforts towards the fulfillment of the agenda of Finical Action Task Force (FATF) have fallen short to come out of the grey list. President of FATF, in…
LNG sector in Pakistan — VII
According to the Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division), unaccounted for gas (UFG) “is a phenomenon of gas loss which is contingent upon occurrence of various technical factors when gas flows…
Pakistan and the global economy
The long-term effects of nearly two years of Covid-19 on the global economy have begun to unfold, biting governments, the elite, middle class and the poor. Governments are facing protests from the people hurt…
Pakistan at the UNGA
The foreign delegations that travelled from their capitals to participate in the UN General Assembly Annual session 76 in New York have returned. The UN HQ is back to normal…
