Stories by Khurram Husain

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

Withering geoeconomics

All signs are now pointing in the direction of yet another incoming geopolitical rent. Updated 16 Oct, 2025 09:10am

Pakistan, seen from Europe

Something important has changed and Pakistan’s stock in the eyes of the European capitals has risen. Updated 09 Oct, 2025 09:13am

A bailout too far

The largest priority for Pakistan was the search for resources with which to fire up the next growth spurt. Updated 02 Oct, 2025 09:19am

Lighting the way

The country’s growth model has run its course. Updated 25 Sep, 2025 08:13am

Guns and money

Put our rulers on the geopolitical chessboard and suddenly they are on home turf. Published 18 Sep, 2025 07:02am

Three years, three uprisings

The uprisings in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal were all organic. Updated 11 Sep, 2025 08:50am

Extracting dollars

The state is trying to extract more revenues, and more dollars from an economy that is not able to supply these. Updated 04 Sep, 2025 09:10am

The million cusec problem

Rather than heckling and abusing each other, ruling political parties need to realise that they are all facing a common enemy: climate change. Updated 28 Aug, 2025 09:27am

Floods and politics

There is much that each provincial government needs to do to increase preparedness for the natural disasters hitting the country. Updated 21 Aug, 2025 09:19am

The tide turns

Polls in the US over the past year have shown rising numbers who believe Is­­rael is committing genocide in Gaza. Updated 14 Aug, 2025 09:27am

Two things to beware

We are not resilient because we choose to be. We are resilient because we have to be. Published 07 Aug, 2025 07:19am

A hybrid wasteland

Today, the political parties are in greater disarray than they have been in the past quarter century. Updated 31 Jul, 2025 09:22am

The growing resource hunger

The relentless tightening of conditions in the economy reflects the erosion of the underlying financial and economic viability of the state. Updated 24 Jul, 2025 08:48am