Farooq Tirmizi

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Mobile phone assembler and distributer moving into higher value electronics by setting up Pakistan’s second laptop assembler

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Why, despite all the negativity, the fundamentals of the country's economy are about to hit a positive tipping point, followed most likely by a multi-decade boom

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Each successive generation is better educated than the one that came before it; democracy and the 18th Amendment help

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While the rest of the world struggles with low birth rates, Pakistan is entering the sweet spot of the double demographic dividend. We should abolish the Population Welfare Department to keep the demographic party going longer

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Profit imagines what a debate between the major political parties would look like to help voters decide which vision of the economy they most closely align with

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Cleaner, more domestic, but not (yet) cheaper: the state of Pakistani electricity

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When does it make sense to leave Pakistan, and when to come back home? The economic aspects of these decisions are less clear-cut than they might seem.

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The Pakistani middle class is past its scepticism of electronic money. How did we get here, and what comes next?

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Rising costs of retiring employees is a well-know problem in the government, but even the private sector has been neglecting the management of their liabilities, and now the bill is coming due

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Trying to control the exchange rate has been one of Pakistan’s biggest macroeconomic policy blunders since Partition. Will the Imran Khan Administration break the cycle, or will they fall prey to their baser instincts?

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Pakistan is finally on the global venture capital map, undeniably a good thing for the country’s economy and startup ecosystem. But if expectations are not aligned with reality for both investors and entrepreneurs, the party could end very quickly

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With the SBP taking sides, can digital-first companies do more than just fill gaps left by the incumbent banks?