Broad push, narrow achievements from US on Gaza war
One month into the Israel-Hamas war, the achievements of US-led diplomacy have been small or subtle, but both supporters and critics say that is partly by design. US Secretary of…
Loss-making Discos — Who tops the chart?
Unfortunately, the Pakistan Power Sector is never away from the public eye– specifically, since the last two decades. Media, primarily, picked-up the then ongoing negotiations with the notorious IPPs in…
Privatization plans
When Fawad Hasan Fawad became the caretaker federal minister for privatization on September 12, 2023 and was given the responsibility to look into the privatization of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA),…
COP28 in a time of chaos
The raging Israeli violence in Gaza is feared to cast a dark shadow on the upcoming COP28 climate summit as the climate discussions are also not immune to abusive power…
Hydropower — a friend in need
Due to population expansion and urbanisation, Pakistan’s energy landscape radically transforms as electricity consumption rises. In 2022 the nation’s total electricity consumption reached 138,755GWh due to industrial growth and socioeconomic…
Power tariff – a flawed business model
Power tariffs have recently been in the limelight – not for any other issue but for unaffordability of the same. The steep rise during the last two years is of…
SBP projections for 2023-24
The Annual Report for 2022-23 on the State of the Economy by the SBP has been released recently. Along with a detailed review of developments on various fronts of the…
No more gas circular debt buildup?
Gas price rationalization is a big reform undertaken by the caretaker government in view of the fact that in the past successive political governments failed to implement it. Increases in…
Nawaz’s 9-point agenda
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader, three times elected and convicted former prime minister of Pakistan, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, has been granted a temporary suspension of sentence in Al-Azizia…
Democratic alternative
When Joe Biden won the presidential election in the United States three years ago, there were some hopes within the pro-Palestinian movement that there would be a positive change in…
