Brace for impact: The Middle East war has reached Pakistan
The government’s announcement of an emergency Rs55 per litre oil price adjustment on Friday night could well be the first of more to come.
Khurram Husain
What was behind the uprisings in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal?
The three uprisings in three years were all organic, in the sense there was no party vanguard, no organising force making them happen. How did the trigger event lead to the…
Pakistan’s PTI’s losing gambit
A country the size of Pakistan should never allow itself to come this close to the edge of catastrophe.
In search of growth
It is possible to see the same reflexes, which drove earlier liquidity-fuelled growth booms, beginning to express themselves.
Re-profiling Chinese debt
Pakistan Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb landed in China one week ago, and on the day he arrived Reuters ran a report saying he was there to seek debt relief. The writer hopes…
There is no sense or sanity in denying surging support for Imran Khan
All predictions that the sun will soon set on Khan once he is removed from power are proving wrong, notes the writer.
Hunkering down to meet Pakistan’s energy needs
From a country with barely any energy sources, and practically no power generation capability at birth, Pakistan built an industrial base for itself in large measure due to its…
Simple arithmetic shows Pakistan is set to run out of forex reserves latest by December
The writer says the next government will have to make history in the speed with which it obtains accession to an IMF programme.