Editor’s Note: The great chasm
The median age of Pakistan is less than 24 years. Ours is one of the youngest countries in the world, and one...
The wrong kind of governing
You can always trust the government of Pakistan to take a look at a problem created by the private sector in the...
Getting our act together
It was only a matter of time, we suppose. Last week, the United States joined the European Union in banning Pakistan International...
Freedom of conscience must be protected by the law
There are two big problems with the statistic that 97% of Pakistanis are Muslim: the first is that it assumes that all...
Editor’s Note: The clear (lack of) strategy
By now, it is abundantly clear that the Imran Khan Administration has no clear strategy for reviving the economy, let along introducing...
Editor’s Note: The adult in the room?
If campaigns are conducted in poetry, and governing in prose, it appears that the Imran Khan Administration – at least insofar as...
Dime-store Democracy
There is an election around the corner we hear. This Thursday all of the country’s registered voters will have the opportunity to...
Editor’s Note: Fuel price populism
There is absolutely no subject over which the Pakistani media collectively loses its mind over more than fuel prices. No matter how...
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...
Staying out of power
The Cabinet has rejected PMUs but has no solution for DISCOs
Editor’s Note: ‘He’s a pleasure to work with’
In our edition dated June 10, 2018, Profit did an evaluation of the respective economic agendas of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and...
Editor’s Note: Encouraging entrepreneurship
Why is Silicon Valley in California and not anywhere else in the world? Why was the world’s biggest hub of innovation founded...
A proactive central bank… up to a point
The State Bank of Pakistan, it seems, does not want to leave anything to chance. Inflation numbers have started to tick downwards,...
Editor’s Note: An all-or-nothing bet
Those that the gods want to destroy, they first make promising. And promising is what Warid was when it entered the Pakistani...
Editor’s Note: Time to test the energy policy
Long before he ever became finance minister, Asad Umar had begun formulating what would eventually become the energy policy of the Imran...