Editor’s Note: The cost of borrowing
In his first speech to his fellow citizens as the Prime Minister-elect of Pakistan, Imran Khan stated his desire to have Pakistan play a...
Why bother with ‘targets’?
Of all the bad habits the government of Pakistan has, perhaps one of the worst is the one picked up by the Ayub Administration...
Dear banks – It’s time to go ‘digital first’
The talk of a digital Pakistan is not just talk. We do not say this because there has been some seismic shift in the...
Editor’s Note: The state of the State Bank
If the KASB Bank’s own valuation was correct, then it actually was sold for a song by SBP. If the auditors’ valuation was correct, then was SBP sleeping on the job when it let things get so bad at KASB?
Painfully Deja Vu
The tradition of the annual budget speech is rapidly becoming meaningless. Every year, the finance minister delivers a barely audible speech while the opposition...
A deadly crossroads
The country is now standing on a very dangerous precipice and more than ever before requires the highest quality decision making at the top...
Ego and insecurity (Editor’s Note)
Being the best and being good enough are not the same thing, a distinction that the students, faculty, and alumni of the Lahore University...
Editor’s Note: The power of humility
At the highest level of the corporate world, humility is not a virtue recognised as valuable by most. This is unsurprising given the level...
If you’re not paying for journalism, you’re paying to not have journalism
Quality is the staple product of this stapled product. Or so we think. As do you, if reader feedback is to be believed.
This leads...
LEAP OF FAITH
Johnny and Jugnu, a local burger joint has of late taken Lahore by storm. As tempting as it sounds, that, however, is not the...
Keeping fingers crossed
Things aren’t too bad on the foreign exchange reserves front. At $22.4 billion, our reserves seem to be sitting pretty; higher than they have...
Editor’s Note: Moral cowardice
For a minute there, we had hope.
To anyone who has hoped for a more tolerant Pakistan, where a person is judged not by their...
Trapped by vested interests
It was a week of sharp reversals. It began with an interest rate hike and ended with a fuel crisis sweeping the country. Along...
Shooting ourselves in the foot
Let us start out by stating the painfully obvious: there is absolutely no scenario in which Pakistan becomes a developed country, or even a...
Can PTCL’s new CEO turn back the clock?
The market just isn’t big enough for these many players. This is a statement that is thrown around a lot these days, whenever the...
