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Karachi’s Water Woes

Karachi’s water woes

About 90pc of Karachi’s population uses water supplied by the sole public water service provider, the Karachi Water & Sewerage Board (KWSB). The KWSB is presently struggling to survive as…

Chaos Under The Heavens

Chaos under the heavens

The last few years have seen our nation being bestowed with several not-so-flattering epithets. Either we are ‘the most dangerous nation’ or ‘the most resilient nation’. We annually grace the…

The Rupee Under Pressure

The rupee under pressure

Pakistan and the IMF have reached a staff level agreement for a $5.3 billion bailout programme. Before this programme is presented to the executive board of the IMF for its…

Revamping An Industry

Revamping an industry

Clusters, as described by the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (Smeda) “are geographical concentrations of enterprises which produce and sell a range of related or complementary products and are…

Clarity Is Still Missing

Clarity is still missing

The new government is in search of a counterterrorism policy. Meanwhile, militants that are evidently clear about their agendas and goals are busy expanding the range of their targets and…

The Making Of An Asian Tiger

The making of an Asian tiger

The remarkable economic success of the ‘Asian Tigers’ (South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) has long fascinated the world, Asia in particular. The Asian Tigers resurfaced during the May…

The New IMF Programme

The new IMF programme

The IMF mission has reached a staff-level agreement with the Pakistani authorities for a $5.3 billion bailout package. The duration of the programme is three years, and the resources will…

Culpability For Crises

Culpability for crises

The debilitating economic crises facing Pakistan and the deplorable state of public services are mostly a result of mismanagement, inaction and the blatantly wrong policies that have been pursued by…

Elusive LNG

Elusive LNG

LNG has evoked a considerable controversy again. Successive governments have been touting LNG projects for now more than a decade as a short-term solution. It has not materialised. But the…

Transparency Works

Transparency works

Recently, former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani told the media that PPP lost the 2013 general election because of pre-poll "rigging" which, according to him, took the form of accountability…