Reconfiguring the economy
Stuck in a low-growth loop
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 and her...
Case of missing aircraft, mismanagement, cronyism, indiscipline, kickbacks, & pilferage haunts PIA
PIA is a statutory state-owned organisation, subject to the regulatory control of Pakistan CAA and every other country whose airspace it overflies or lands...
With Raast, context is Key
Raast by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has received a lot of excitement and interest from the financial payments industry, particularly from the...
Gaslight at the end of PSX tunnel
The week ending on October 14 had been precarious for the PSX and investors as political tensions gave the market a good old hammering....
Careem plots move into delivery sector, will this strategy crystallize?
Pakistan’s technology sector remains nascent, but dynamics of the industry will follow global patterns and see replication at a scale which could be unprecedented...
On what women wear to work, and why it should be simpler
Traversing what is and what is not appropriate for work is very different for women than it is for men
Pakistan needs to get out of the comfort zone, end cycle of borrowing
Pakistan is stuck in a repeated cycle of borrowing to pay back money it already owes to other countries. The scary part - it seems like it has become too comfortable with it.
The case against a six-day work week
After a week-long constitutional crisis, a new government is finally in place. One of the first decisions taken was a rushed one, devoid of...
The cost of surplus power
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi recently said that the country would experience an electricity surplus in the region of 2,400-3,400 MW by February next...
The smog will worsen. It doesn’t have to
We are not condemned to live in this hell forever. Measures can and must be taken
Governance system for local governments – Part 1
Devolution, decentralization and financial delegation
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...
News bites — Khan saab’s glorious U turn, Advice for Miftah Ismael, Chopping education and more
The Great U Turn
He came. He saw. He left. After leading a frenzied mob all the way from Peshawar to Islamabad to demand the...
The only constant is change
The old adage, “the only constant is change” is truer today than perhaps ever before. Businesses are grappling with inflation, economic instability, political volatility,...
