Khurram Husain
They use bailouts and loans to fuel the country’s economy and repression to stifle the people’s will.
Updated 19 Sep, 2024 09:37am
More likely what Pakistan is facing is an absence of geopolitics on the IMF board.
Updated 12 Sep, 2024 09:29am
Some indicators are showing an improvement, but the risks are still very much there.
Updated 05 Sep, 2024 09:31am
The government appears conflicted internally, cutting compromises where it knows it cannot fight.
Updated 29 Aug, 2024 09:06am
This government is now clearly in reactive mode, and has lost the initiative when it comes to economic matters.
Updated 22 Aug, 2024 09:05am
In future, reliance on imports to meet the country’s energy requirements will only increase.
Updated 15 Aug, 2024 09:27am
Our industrial elite are professional lobbyists for an industry that ought to have died out many decades ago in Pakistan.
Updated 08 Aug, 2024 09:28am
More than a month after the prime minister’s visit, they are only at the beginning of the process.
Updated 02 Aug, 2024 02:43pm
Why has the textile lobby declared war on the IPPs? The simple answer is their power tariffs have been hiked.
Published 25 Jul, 2024 07:53am
It is not clear when a tipping point will be reached, nor what it will trigger if and when it does arrive.
Updated 11 Jul, 2024 09:06am
The non-stop struggle for power has paralysed the state at the top, and stymied its attempt to develop a sound reform strategy.
Updated 20 Jun, 2024 09:52am
Today, economic policy in Pakistan consists of scrambling to meet IMF targets to pass the next review. All else is fluff.
Updated 13 Jun, 2024 09:47am
We should be looking somewhere else to ascertain what the purpose of the China trip really is.
Updated 06 Jun, 2024 09:47am
We will find out in due course what it means to ‘strengthen cooperation’.
Published 30 May, 2024 08:38am
Only after they have done this can we take seriously the other remedies they wish to propose.
Published 23 May, 2024 07:39am
Before reaching the agreement, the Fund will observe the situation closely to ensure it is in line with programme projections.
Updated 16 May, 2024 10:05am
The big problem in Pakistan’s power bureaucracy now is that the state insists on setting the price of electricity manually, using outmoded formulae.
Updated 09 May, 2024 08:59am
The integrity of honourable men was besmirched purely so that a vindictive politician could advance his politics.
Updated 02 May, 2024 09:32am
There is a calm in economic numbers, but below the surface trouble is brewing.
Updated 25 Apr, 2024 09:33am
Are we simply going to repeat an old story where the govt fetches dollars from abroad to produce short-lived growth?
Updated 18 Apr, 2024 09:25am
