Khurram Husain
Tarin will be expected to prove that he views with favour the demands of the ruling party’s MNAs and senators for greater resource
Published 22 Apr, 2021 07:27am
It seems that Imran Khan is feeling the pain of the adjustment that he has had to undertake.
Updated 15 Apr, 2021 09:04am
How things go with the IMF are critical to how the political scene will evolve.
Updated 08 Apr, 2021 08:47am
The Americans call this ‘muddling through’, a situation when those in charge don’t know what they are doing.
Updated 01 Apr, 2021 08:49am
It is a principle of sovereign lending that those prerogatives a ruler cannot manage are eventually taken out of the ruler’s.
Updated 25 Mar, 2021 08:59am
The present dispensation is having a hard time with the more mundane task of running things.
Published 18 Mar, 2021 07:42am
With the IMF talks at a critical juncture, the government is in no position to shift horses at this point.
Updated 11 Mar, 2021 08:23am
The government is serving the poor with its words and the rich with its deeds.
Updated 04 Mar, 2021 08:12am
The inclination among some to celebrate the movement of individual indicators will be tested.
Published 25 Feb, 2021 06:38am
The IMF seems to be saying that the incremental quantum of exports cannot justify the scale of “incentives” for ...
Published 18 Feb, 2021 06:25am
Money has no party and ultimately all parties are the party of money.
Updated 11 Feb, 2021 08:12am
The govt's cheerleaders will argue that State Bank figures will always differ from those of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.
Updated 04 Feb, 2021 08:15am
Banks are sceptical of the State Bank’s ‘forward guidance’ if their bidding behaviour in govt debt auctions is anything to go by.
Updated 28 Jan, 2021 08:45am
It is worth noting that massive plans have been upended and assets are now on the verge of being seized.
Published 21 Jan, 2021 05:24am
Prime Minister Imran Khan has been talking about a ‘recovery’ in the economy since at least November.
Updated 14 Jan, 2021 12:40pm
The protests that broke out after the February 2013 bombing in Hazara Town spread like wildfire across Pakistan.
Updated 07 Jan, 2021 08:23am
Coming in the middle of an improving situation, the crisis of 2020 was different from anything seen in national history.
Updated 03 Jan, 2021 02:02am
Nobody seems to know who is building it since it does not feature in the provincial or federal development projects.
Updated 31 Dec, 2020 08:14am
It seems that the government came to power with no idea of how big the world is and how complex is its machinery.
Updated 24 Dec, 2020 08:05am
One crisis nearly abates and another looms. This is going to be an endless cycle.
Updated 17 Dec, 2020 08:55am