The path to energy security
Energy security is one of the hallmarks of success for any economy in the present times. The paucity of energy has haunted the economy of Pakistan for a decade now.…
When scarcity strikes
Water is a basic necessity of life. Since access to water has been recognised as a human right, the obligation to provide clean and safe drinking water across the globe…
The fate of the forest
Timber is a precious commodity in Pakistan. Higher timber prices in Pakistan, as compared to the world average, have made the timber business lucrative. As a result, illegal timber harvesting…
Reading tea leaves
The new year has been rung in around the world in already a less than auspicious way. For Pakistan, 2016 may not have been entirely annus horribilis, with a few…
Private climate investment
Even the strongest critics of climate change can no longer deny that climate change is real. Investing in low carbon and climate resilient development is the need of the hour.…
Long regulatory rigmarole
Two actions have been taken by the Ministry of Water and Power of late, causing quite some stir among the stakeholders. First, Nepra has been put under direct administrative relationship…
Alarm bells for the economy
In the face of sluggish export growth, high trade deficit and meagre foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, one factor that has sustained the economy and helped ease pressures on the…
Petrol price: claims and counter-claims
The Sharif-led administration, by getting the Prime Minister to announce a decline in the price of oil and products, is indirectly implying that it is a direct outcome of the…
Declining remittances
Over the decades, Pakistan has profited by exporting its labour abroad, particularly to the resource-rich economies of the Gulf. This strategy, which has sent millions of semi-skilled blue-collar workers abroad,…
Our future
Following the previously unthinkable victory of Donald Trump in the US presidential election everyone is trying to explain how and why he won, as if a right-wing demagogue taking power…
