Criticality of coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish -black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as…
A successful visit?
With a few days' gap, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif again visited the US, this time to discuss Pak-US relations with the US president for which he couldn't find time during…
Green parliament
Last year when world leaders geared up for reaching an international climate deal in Paris, Pakistan's Parliament decided to go green like its flag. Pakistan's Parliament became the first ever…
Private equity deals hit as banks curb lending for leveraged buyouts
For KKR & Co LP, the private equity firm behind some of the world's largest leveraged buyouts, the acquisition of U.S. outdoor retailer Mills Fleet Farm for a little more…
What the future has in store?
Each quarterly review of Pakistan's performance under IMF's Extended Finance Facility (EFF) points to public debt exceeding its target and tax collection remaining below its target. The ninth review again…
Reinvigorating domestic demand
Economic and financial stability in Asia is critical as we embark on the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - a universal and ambitious blueprint that expands the horizons of…
China’s AIIB initiative
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), backed by China as a potential rival to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other international lenders, opened on January 16, 2016…
Innovative development
Innovation has become a key factor in the process of socioeconomic development. Innovation is no longer the prerogative of developed nations. Some developing countries have given innovation-based development a high…
Our travel footprint
Pakistan may be a minor defaulter in creating the crisis of climate change. Of the 32,100 million tonnes of deadly Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emitted globally every year, we can only…
The hunger games
The statement that hunger has reached crisis proportions in Pakistan may come as a surprise to anyone eating at a plush restaurant or walking down the well-stocked aisle of an…
