Why Jeffrey Sachs is wrong about Reko Diq
It started with the usual leftie / “anti-imperialism is the ultimate moral good” crowd. An article written by American economist Jeffrey Sachs...
What options does Shehbaz have?
How can he stabilise an economy on the brink while building traction with voters at the same time?
Bond spreads rise with political risk
Pakistan has a long history in global capital markets. The country’s first international bond dates to late 1994 when $150mn was raised...
What makes Pakistan plump for IMF time and time again?
Pakistan has been approaching International Monitoring Fund (IMF), intermittently, since 1988. The last programme was successfully completed during the period 2013-16. However,...
Can the sun be taxed?
Like all good things must come to an end, sales tax has been imposed on solar panels.
What made the startups click in Pakistan?
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. – Jack Welch
Editor’s Note: SBP’s Hotel California
It doesn’t make sense. Just doesn’t.
Here are three banks that are clearly up for sale. Three solid banks, with great fundamentals, not...
What the December T-bill drama means
The SBP is trying to inject liquidity and provide cheaper money to commercial banks
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
The what-ifs of Pakistan’s oil and gas segment
There is no single person to blame – everyone has had a subpar showing.
Business begins at home
It is high time we shift our diplomatic focus to our own businessmen in order to achieve desired objectives of attracting foreign investors
Taking the menace of gas theft head on
UFG is theft of natural gas that makes up a whopping 51 per cent of the total gas lost
2021: What just happened? What comes next?
A year that started off very strong is ending on a starkly different note. Where will the next year take us?
Celebrating Pakistani tech story the right way
An interesting concept, PakLaunch’s conference of entrepreneurs left a lot else to be desired
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...