| 20 December 2004 | Monday | 07 Ziqa'ad 1425 |
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Why privatize the PTCL?
Information is the fastest growing global technology and communication is the most rapidly studying business in the world. The economic performance of nations is not only judged in terms of per capita income ... 
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All-out efforts for more energy
The government is making strenuous efforts to increase the output of energy in al its forms in view of the high world prices, the extreme uncertainties in the oil market and the shortage of supply at home. ...
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Partnerships for sustainable future
Economic growth is essential for poverty reduction. But rapid economic expansion in the developing world is often associated with environmental degradation. ...
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Combating corruption
Combating corruption is not easy in a society that has a tendency to blatantly justify corrupt acts and practices to the extent that those who tend to or try to tread the straight path are made to feel "deviant" and stupid. ...
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Expanding micro-credit for the poor
A high level conference in Islamabad last week discussed on how the micro-credit reach could be extended to the maximum possible poor households. The focus was on "innovating and mainstreaming" micro-credit financing. ...
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Lesson from missed economic opportunities
In the life of a Nation, Nature bestows economic opportunities. There are some Nations which seize them and turn into economics giants. There are others which miss them and are left behind. ...
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How economic power is shifting to China
In the past, the United States has survived import waves from Japan, South Korea and Mexico. And it has lived with China for two decades. But something very different is happening now. ...
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Hostile take-over of PECO in the offing
There were reports in the English daily newspapers, in the month of September this year, about the National Investment Trust Ltd (NIT) selling its 22 per cent shareholding in the Pakistan Engineering Company Ltd (PECO) ...
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Drag of Wapda's break-up
It is a foregone conclusion that Wapda's Power Wing would be broken up in the coming January. It is foregone because prepositions once set in motion- at least in Pakistan, are never re-thought and nor ever corrected. ...
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Value dynamics of corporate governance
"Corporate governance is...holding the balance between economic and social goals... The governance framework is there to encourage the efficient use of resources and equally to require accountability for the stewardship of those resources... ...
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Farmers continue to suffer from unfair marketing
While holding seminars and conferences has become a popular past time on topics ranging from vital themes to superfluous subjects for many organizations ...
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Cane growers in adverse situation again
As sugar mill owners and the establishment have, once again, locked their horns with cane growers emerging as the ultimate sufferers in this new power struggle. ...
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Threat to wheat crop
The province of Sindh has three distinct physiographic regions - rive rine and irrigated alluvial region, sandi eastern region (Thar desert), and rocky western region (Khirthar range). ...
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Water resource planning in Tenth Five Year Plan
The Planning Commission of Pakistan embarked upon the preparation of the Tenth Five Year Plan (2004-05-2008-09) in July 2004. Consequently, the preparatory work for the plan was initiated in the concerned ministries/ divisions. ...
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Share index goes on breaking new barriers
The KSE 100-share index last week maintained its record of breaching through successive psychological barriers, starting from 5,500, and stood confidently at its new career-best level of well above 5,800 ...
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Notes issued, in circulation on rise
On December 16, the State Bank of Pakistan mopped up Rs21.9 billion from the inter-bank market at an open market operation, conducted to offset an inflow of Rs27 billion. ...
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