Fiscal discipline: A comparison between PML-N and PPP regimes
Over a passage of time, it becomes important that we reflect into the economic performances of the PML-N and PPP regimes respectively...
A guide to ending tax evasion in Pakistan
No issue in Pakistan currently attracts as much attention as that of tax evasion. On one hand, we have the people of...
Return of the Stay-at-Home Mom: The Way Forward
According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2016, Pakistan ranks 143 out of 144 countries in the gender...
Leap Of Faith
A few months ago I took my head office team to a team building session at a nearby resort. Although I was...
Daraz.pk : Let it live or let it die?
Rumour has it that Alibaba wants to buy Daraz.pk from Rocket Internet for $150 million (approx Rs 1500 crores). If the transaction...
Return of the Stay-at-Home-Mom – Part 2
A few weeks ago I told you a story of a dreamer, since then I have received a lot of messages from...
Why Fauji Meat is the smartest decision made by the Fauji group in decades
The worst way to think about a profitable investment strategy – whether it be as an individual investor or as a CEO...
The Return of the Stay at Home Mom!
While all the other little girls played with Barbies and doll houses, this peculiar one dreamt of the stars and the galaxy...
Digital Distribution – The Case for Digitizing Pension Payments in Pakistan
Pension payments in Pakistan constitute one of the largest payouts at an institutional level in cash. With modern technology bringing a wave...
Coping with the ‘overvalued’ exchange rate dilemma
Exchange rate management is considered as one of the most critical aspects of economic policymaking, particularly in countries that are vulnerable to...
Our unsavoury grocery trip
I remember my mother used to say, “Eat a good meal first and then go to the grocery store.” I learnt the...
Where are our cities?
Why do Pakistani official circles still like to maintain Pakistan is a rural country? Every pronouncement of government, at the cabinet table...
What Shanghai Electric is inheriting from Abraaj
The problem with buying a monopoly is that you never really think about the competition until it is too late. Shanghai Electric’s...
Should we have a Planning Commission?
Kh Asif with his caustic remark “if here had been a Planning commission then, Taj Mahal would not be built!’ I am...
Taken for a ride: Uber’s free ride wasn’t free after all
It was 9:07 pm and my thoughts raced like a tangled mess, loops of thread getting stuck at adjacent knots and reversing...