The renewable revolution
Our challenge is to catalyse this process, not sit and wait for it to arrive on its own.
Khurram Husain
Quagmire
The opposition’s strategy is simple. Time is on their side.
The inflation stew
Having cut off the monetary roots of inflation, why are prices continuing to spiral?
Headwinds increasing
Ultimately power is the ability to produce outcomes on the ground, desired outcomes, not random or fortuitous ones.
Power and pageantry
Special interests, whether in bureaucracy or the private sector, devour the country and its wealth up like termites.
Vawda’s unfunny joke
What merit has Vawda brought to a ministry that oversees Pakistan's most important natural resource next to natural gas?
First quarter developments
The real story begins when you start adding up the numbers to see how much of an improvement there really is.
The year of stability
Economic matters cannot run on autopilot, nor can they be delegated to one or two men.
Economy: Talking the big talk
Will the govt walk the critical walk in 2020?
Power sector sinking
Much hangs in the balance as the govt is tasked with eliminating further accumulation of circular debt.
Gas price bomb
This time utility prices are responding to variables that the inflation forecast has most likely not included.
‘Today you will see how rocks cry’
The magnitude of what had just happened and the enormity of the crime hit home.
Silence of the lambs
It would be a good idea for Shahzad Akbar to soon hold that press conference his government promised he would.
Time to stand down
There is more to the institution of the military than its might and its prestige.
Imran’s corner
Who’s really adding those numbers up anyway these days? This is government by retweet only.
Rotten tomatoes
Creating short-lived growth booms has been the only aim of any government.
Hot air rising
There is one thing that all governments do when they come under pressure. They start throwing about random data points.
Strikes and deficits
Perhaps the snake has shed its skin, or maybe the government has realised who it is really supposed to serve.
SCENES FROM AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
Tens of millions of people are suffocating under the rising tide of inflation and unemployment.
SCENES FROM AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
With the country in the grips of a severe recession, even wealthy businessmen are crying out about the government’s