FX and Gold weekly outlook
ECB rate cut and BOE's liquidity injection on same day should not be a big surprise, as both were due for its monetary policy announcement. But the biggest surprise of…
Saying it as it is
A rare spontaneity in the choice of words and the body language of their interlocutors this week shone a ray of hope if not a nood of sunshine on the…
The crisis in Syria
Days before the US presidential election, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton travelled to Doha to help forge a united Syrian opposition. Nineteen months after the Syrian uprisings began, Gulf and…
Gilani on Asian unity
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s plea for Asian unity, which he made at the annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia in China on April 2, has gone almost…
Bribes for foreigners
“EACH of you, in doing what you did, helped secure an important contract which benefited, financially, society as a whole; but the ends never justify the means,” an English judge…
Spotlight
One wondered how long the game would go on. How long would the judiciary allow the progress of high profile cases, affecting important functionaries of the PPP government to be…
A killing machine called CIA
In an interview for an article about the machinations of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) one of the Washington Post’s sources described it as “one helluva killing machine”. Then, according…
An emerging market?
A recent Global Research Report by HSBC Bank noted that 19 of the top 30 economies in 2050 will be countries that are “emerging”. It is “not just the likes…
The year gone by
As another frantic year comes to an end, I want to know who pushed the fast-forward button. Why is it that life seems to speed up as you get older?…
Pakistan`s isolation
The leaders of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (Britain, the US, France, China and Russia) have visited India in the last few months.
