A tale of two dams
Financing the Diamer Basha Dam and Mohmand Dam should never be seen as obstacles. We know that money is never the major constraint; poor resolve is what should be feared.…
It will need to come out of the box
First impressions, on seeing the amount of bank borrowings of Rs 586 billion in revised estimates for 2017-18 as per Table-6, Comparative Budgetary Position, within the "Budget In Brief" publication…
Budget destined for revision
The budget 2018-19's applicability due from 1 July 2018 is likely to be even shorter than the tenure of the few hours' old Finance Minister Miftah Ismail who presented the…
The corrupt, tax cheats, ‘secrecy’ & RTI — I
2020 has started and apparently everyone has forgotten what the Supreme Court desired in Suo Muto Case No. 2 of 2018, started on February 1, 2018, and what happened thereafter.…
Iran’s Guards seen economic winner from tougher Trump stance
Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a military force with political clout and an industrial empire, stands to benefit from heightened tension between Washington and Tehran, officials and analysts said.…
Defective IMF Programme
The IMF Staff Report setting out the details of the IMF Programme have been released recently. This article examines the Programme strategy, proposed reforms, targets, assumptions and projections over the…
Defective IMF Programme
The IMF Staff Report setting out the details of the IMF Programme have been released recently. This article examines the Programme strategy, proposed reforms, targets, assumptions and projections over the…
Budget shortcomings and the IMF
The same day as the board of directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved the staff-level agreement, 3 July 2019, a summary of the objectives of the programme and…
Foreign drugs rare commodity in sanctions-hit Iran
"Talk of sanctions on Iran reemerged, and my essential medicine was no longer available," said Masoud Mir who suffers from thalassaemia, a genetic blood disease common in Iran. Mir, 36,…
A tale of two dams
Financing the Diamer Basha Dam and Mohmand Dam should never be seen as obstacles. We know that money is never the major constraint; poor resolve is what should be feared.…
