Khurram Husain
It is not a good idea to go into 2025 with too much optimism. The hard-won stability of 2024 will prove testing in the new year.
Updated 26 Dec, 2024 08:57am
Technology needs to fulfil the most basic requirement first: to do the job at the least cost.
Updated 19 Dec, 2024 09:30am
It is possible to see the same reflexes, which drove earlier liquidity-fuelled growth booms, beginning to express themselves.
Updated 12 Dec, 2024 09:36am
Truth is, the only good news here is that we are no longer facing imminent default.
Updated 05 Dec, 2024 09:04am
For a ruler of a country in the modern era, power is the ability to provide livelihoods to his people, first and foremost.
Updated 28 Nov, 2024 07:49pm
Having found fragile stability, the govt now faces the real challenge of transitioning from stability to growth.
Updated 21 Nov, 2024 09:06am
The Pakistani authorities have done the right thing to not grant the request for an expanded Chinese security presence in the country.
Updated 14 Nov, 2024 09:40am
It is imperative that the country finds a way to grow out of its dysfunctions.
Updated 07 Nov, 2024 10:37am
The credibility of the country is hurt when a government plays a front-line role in pursuing investment.
Updated 31 Oct, 2024 09:09am
We got an independent judiciary after the lawyers’ movement. But what exactly did the judges do with this expanded power?
Updated 24 Oct, 2024 09:18am
These are near historic levels of degradation of the standard of living.
Updated 17 Oct, 2024 09:47am
Indicators showed Pakistan’s inflation was far more aggravated than its peers.
Updated 10 Oct, 2024 09:50am
The economy has not seen a period of stability like this since at least 2019.
Updated 03 Oct, 2024 09:20am
Making audits work is not as straightforward as it might seem at first glance.
Updated 26 Sep, 2024 09:51am
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