Pakistan wins over Amazon: De-coding another dream
There was celebration all over the country when Commerce Advisor Abdul Razak Dawood tweeted that Pakistan will before long be added to Amazon's rundown...
It isn’t good news
If Pakistan is to progress, we must empower our women and make peace with who our neighbours are.
TikTok was just unbanned. How long do you give it?
The audio-video based social media app has gone from banned to unbanned over and over again
Hands off the 18th Amendment, Asad Umar!
When he came into office as federal finance minister, we warned Asad Umar not to rely too much on the civil servants for advice,...
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...
The Fault in our Firms
Do audit practices add to the vows of a Chartered Accountancy Trainee?
Of Councils and Chambers
Do various business lobby groups operating in Pakistan represent the rentier economy?
A case of exploding tomatoes
The extreme fluctuations in prices of tomatoes amongst other staples over the last few weeks have induced a weird kind of panic. Yesterday the...
Pakistan’s ticking pension time bomb
The government must change its pension plans unless it wants to buckle under the weight of pension liabilities
Reconfiguring the economy
Stuck in a low-growth loop
Jo Banain Gai Khain Gai (We will eat what we make)
The main focus of our economic policy should be efficient production of exportable goods and agricultural products. Our standard of living faces a collapse due to a lack of industrial and agricultural production
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 people especially...
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...
Symptoms of distress
The state is sick and the infection has set in inside its economy. But could we lose everything else in the process too?
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....
