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OPINION: Inflation expectations rise

Inflation is a politically sensitive indicator, calculated by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), which has prompted routine challenge by...

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Anjum Ibrahim

OPINION: Discos: privatisation plan won’t succeed without market deregulation

After PIA’s successful privatisation, all eyes are on power distribution companies (the so-called discos), which are at the top of the active...

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Ali Khizar

Pakistan’s FDI puzzle

Pakistan’s economy appears to be moving towards a more stable footing. Inflation has notably eased since the peak of 38 percent in 2023, the...

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M Abdul Aleem

Solar energy

Proposed amendments to the draft of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Prosumer) Regulations, 2025 are aimed at effectively reducing the...

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Syed Feisal Ali

OPINION: Solar energy

Proposed amendments to the draft of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Prosumer) Regulations, 2025 are aimed at effectively reducing the...

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Syed Feisal Ali

OPINION: ‘Export Emergency’

When a country’s largest export sector begins to openly warn of collapse, policymakers can no longer afford denial or delay. The Pakistan Textile...

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Farhat Ali

OPINION: Pakistan’s manufactured unemployment: a blueprint of state failure—I

Pakistan’s unemployment crisis is no accident of fate. It is not the result of global headwinds or temporary shocks. It is a direct, predictable,...

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Fazeel Asif

Our dangerous roads

While we were celebrating the beautiful new number plates reflecting our culture and introducing new laws and setting up new parameters for all...

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Zia Ul Islam Zuberi

OPINION: Growth model and IMF conditionalities — V

While quoting the research of the book ‘A thousand cuts: social spending in the age of austerity’ in the previous part of this series of articles,...

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Dr Omer Javed

OPINION: Pakistan’s mineral paradox

How Pakistan’s largest mineral discovery could either anchor a new industrial economy — or repeat a familiar extract-and-export cycle Pakistan’s...

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Dr Raania Ahsan