Lahore’s challenge
LAHORE and the monsoons have a strange relationship. When the sweltering summer months approach, the anticipation of barsaat brings respite to the residents. However, the relief comes with its own…
Symptom vs cause
In the wake of cementing the new Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for a $7-billion, 37-month loan, along with the outlandish ‘structural reforms’ being parlayed between Pakistan and the IMF, President…
Emerging market credit ratings are finally looking up again
From Brazil, Nigeria and Turkey to even some of the riskiest emerging markets such as Egypt and Zambia, evidence is growing that a decade-long deterioration in sovereign credit ratings has…
Drawing in the diaspora
It has been estimated that our diaspora, numbering over 10 million, has a combined earning per annum comparable to Pakistan’s GDP of $340 billion. Given the vastly superior income level,…
The meaning of democracy
Democracy is the system of government that most analysts in the country and beyond it believe may be the best for our future. The question however is how it is…
Artificial glaciers stave off drought in Kyrgyzstan
In the Tian-Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan, villagers have made an artificial glacier to provide water for their drought-hit farms. Standing on the ice hillock, farmer Erkinbek Kaldanov said he was…
Bangladesh’s ‘tiny houses’ tackle giant flood challenge
An award-winning architect in Bangladesh, one of the nations most at risk from flooding driven by climate change, has developed an ingenious two-floor housing solution to help people survive what…
PSX IPO Summit 2024
The following is the full text of federal minister for finance, revenue and economic affairs Dr Shamshad Akhtar’s speech that she delivered at PSX IPO Summit through a video link…
Nation of soldiers
WITHIN a short time after the founding of Israel, a persecuted people who had never warred became “a nation of soldiers”. As historians Edward Luttwak and Dan Horowitz write in…
Why are Pakistanis leaving?
Emigration has occupied perhaps more than its usual share of space in the public discourse in the past year. Op-eds that popped up in the media have included pure opinions…
