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Why Dubai chalo, why not Karachi? [English]

August 26th by Anjum Niaz.
Karachi is in bloom of the brick and mortar kind. It's ablaze with flyovers, high rises and expansive roads. The coastal climate is idyllic. The breeze never stops; the sun ...

The lion’s share [English]

August 24th by Masood Hasan.
Having had the lion's share for nine years, not to mention the many other years of great pomp that comes with reaching the top echelons of service for the cause ...

Good guys finish last [English]

August 14th by Irfan Husain.
WHEN I was studying economics at university more years ago than I care to remember, we were taught that consumers made rational choices in the market place. Thus, everything else ...

Towards proper regulation of outdoor advertising [English]

August 4th by Ahmad Rafay Alam.
The committee set up to review the outdoor advertising policy for Lahore has submitted its survey report to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and meets this afternoon. The Government of ...

Monetary policy measures — some thoughts [English]

August 1st by Meekal Aziz Ahmed.
The State Bank's (SBP) recent actions to tighten monetary policy, while correct, betray a sense of panic. It seems to be a desperate attempt by the central ...

Responding to the economic challenges

July 23rd by Nasim Zehra.
With mounting economic challenges Pakistan's elected government's response profile needs to be outstanding. The economic crunch that is hitting out all across the country has applied a terrible squeeze on ...

Pakistan’s looming economic crisis

July 23rd by Meekal Aziz Ahmed.
The Pakistani economy today faces the looming risk of a full-fledged balance of payments crisis. Macroeconomic imbalances, the domestic fiscal imbalance and the external imbalance, have increased to alarming proportions ...