How do you suspend the rules? Successive governments have done this by placing pliant individuals in key leadership ... Published Aug 16, 2018 07:24am

Every government manages to do only one big thing in its tenure. Updated Aug 09, 2018 08:06am

Could the Fund really ask the new government to first obtain the approval of the opposition parties in parliament... Updated Aug 02, 2018 08:07am

Eos offers the incoming Prime Minister an agenda of some critical issues confronting Pakistan today — what should be the Updated Jul 29, 2018 04:11pm

The economy will press down upon the new dispensation with great urgency. Published Jul 26, 2018 05:57am

How sustainable is the brief moment of respite that appeared to be opening up before us? Updated Jul 19, 2018 08:13am

Public finance is not a joke, the state cannot be run like a charity... Updated Jul 12, 2018 08:50am

An IMF programme, if it should come to that, could complicate the implementation of CPEC. Updated Jul 05, 2018 11:09am

The numbers of the Sri Lanka story are far larger in Pakistan. Updated Jun 28, 2018 08:21am

From stabilisation of the external sector to securing a bailout loan, some complex tasks await the next regime. Updated Jun 21, 2018 11:10am

Keeping the exchange rate imprisoned within a narrow band is very bad economic policy. Updated Jun 14, 2018 08:20am

One small thing going wrong in one place can send consequences cascading through the entire power system. Updated Jun 07, 2018 07:53am

The jihadi establishment is a tragedy. After decades of nurturing, it gave us deadly suicide bombings. Updated May 31, 2018 08:22am

It would be great if other parties could give us something to compare with Khan’s agenda. Published May 24, 2018 06:55am

When trolls come into power, they have a built-in interest in keeping the population armed only with a little learning. Published May 17, 2018 07:34am

Let’s put it in plain words first: there is no $4.9bn worth of remittances going from Pakistan to India. Updated May 10, 2018 11:13am

The new water policy merely skirts around the challenges that confront our water economy. Updated May 03, 2018 09:38am

Defence spending does not produce an economic boost because the ‘military industrial complex’ in Pakistan is very small. Updated Apr 26, 2018 11:43am

This year the thinking is very astute, and very short term: put money directly into people’s pockets. Updated Apr 19, 2018 02:08pm

Cutting off supplies to press for payment is tantamount to holding the entire city hostage to a single payment dispute. Published Apr 12, 2018 09:52am