Towards competitive electricity market
Last week NEPRA approved the detailed design and implementation plan of Competitive Trading Bilateral Contract Market (CTBCM). This is a step towards market liberalization; and it’s better than mere slogan…
SMEs: an unloved story
The contention is that Pakistan has 5.2 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs). A statistic based not on any recent census, but an extrapolation based on growth rates, corroborated by…
Ideology of oppression
Bullying is a habit. Threat is a tool. Force is a conduct. Oppression is an ideology. Nobody is beyond the scope of atrocity range of India. From organizations, to activists,…
Blue Economy and need for aligning maritime policy
The seas envelop approximately 71% of the planet’s surface, and have shaped the human civilization since millennia. Presently, about 60% of global population lives in littorals. Seas hold vast reserves…
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…
The devolution plan
Holding local government elections in Pakistan has always been a challenge and a dilemma for the sitting government, both politically and administratively. Even if the first phase is completed successfully,…
Time of the undead
The way these Conferences of the Parties climate summits drag on from one venue to the other with an ever bigger fanfare, it’s not unrealistic to expect for the Glasgow…
COP26: glass half-full or half-empty?
The 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) was held in Glasgow, UK with great enthusiasm bringing together nearly 200 countries and 50,000 participants from October 31 to November 12, 2021. The…
Will COP26 deforestation pledge be game-changer or just more broken promises?
A new pledge by world leaders to halt deforestation by 2030 is likely to fail unless quickly backed by more funding, transparent monitoring and tough regulation of businesses and financiers…
How TLP won 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021
“When you’re bleedin’ a guy, you don’t squeeze him dry right away. Contrarily, you let him do his bidding. Suavely. So you can bleed him next week, and the week…
