Stories by Khurram Husain

The renewable tipping point

With batteries, it will be possible to generate, store and use electricity round the clock using solar only. Updated 19 Feb, 2026 09:18am

The state needs to admit that the electrical grid is in terminal decline instead of resisting the solar transition

Either way, we had no choice but to pay. We were prisoners inside this grid. Published 12 Feb, 2026 09:00am

Net metering fiasco

Either way, we had no choice but to pay. We were prisoners inside this grid. Updated 12 Feb, 2026 08:51am

The Hustler

Are we really being courted as an ally, a partner or a friend by the Trump White House? Updated 05 Feb, 2026 09:22am

Rebuilding reserves

Against the depletion of foreign exchange reserves, the battle is still on. Updated 29 Jan, 2026 09:47am

Fighting fires

The flames consuming Gul Plaza were reminiscent of the inflationary fire that engulfed the country between March 2021 and May 2023. Updated 22 Jan, 2026 09:10am

End of stability

A stagnant economy cannot afford high prices, high taxes and high debt burdens for long. Updated 15 Jan, 2026 09:37am

Solving Pakistan

When talking about solutions, it is critical to first have clarity on the problem. Updated 08 Jan, 2026 09:40am

Economy In Focus: The Limits Of Stability

2025 was the year when a new opportunity for a geopolitical rent dawned on the country and a path out of a crippling stabilisation programme began to open up. Updated 01 Jan, 2026 10:00am

RIP Shamshad Akhtar

She had already made history as the first woman governor of the State Bank, but little did she know that she would be called upon to make history one more time in dealing with the crisis coming her way. Updated 01 Jan, 2026 09:18am

PIA: ready for take-off

There was no sense in carrying this enterprise forward any longer. It should have been dumped over a decade ago. Updated 25 Dec, 2025 09:08am

Watering hope and hype

Rarely, if ever, does one see an actual substantive issue being given actual substantive treatment on prime time television. Updated 18 Dec, 2025 09:11am

The Great Retreat

There are too many players now, and not enough space in the game for all of them. Updated 11 Dec, 2025 09:08am

Centre vs province

Do the provinces have the right to ask where all the money poured into SOEs since 2009 has gone? Updated 04 Dec, 2025 08:29am

Corruption diagnostic

Real reform seeks to change the landscape against which economic behaviour plays itself out. Updated 27 Nov, 2025 09:02am

Manias and magic bullets

Something important is trying to speak through these manias that break out regularly every few years. Updated 20 Nov, 2025 09:49am

Living with dysfunction

The same labour and capital inputs today will generate lesser output, produce fewer jobs and lift fewer people out of poverty. Updated 13 Nov, 2025 09:11am

NFC and the 27th amendment

What is most important for the provinces at this time is to provide their assent to the demand from the centre. Updated 06 Nov, 2025 09:00am

Adapt or die

Nothing good has ever come out of the proposals the business community has been bringing to the government. Updated 30 Oct, 2025 08:53am

Hungering for growth

The problem is how to restart growth after stabilisation in a way that does not lead to a resurgence of the same deficits all over again. Updated 23 Oct, 2025 08:50am