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America in deadlock: the government shutdown

The United States has once again entered a government shutdown and the impasse created by it revealing both the fragility of its political system...

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Qamar Bashir

Privatisation of DISCOs

Privatisation has long been presented as the solution to Pakistan’s power sector crisis, but our reality shows how deeply resistant we remain to...

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Rehan Javed

Games that ‘C-suite’ leaders play

Egos. Silos. Conflicts. These three words are the most oft-repeated in companies. The head of marketing and finance are head on head. The...

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Andleeb Abbas

First-mover advantage

Before we get to the basics, let’s acknowledge that “the Advantage” belongs to apple. Through history, apple dominates. The Apple of Adam & Eve,...

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Farooq Hassan

Rethinking wheat policy

Wheat in Pakistan is not just a crop; it is politics, survival, and the government’s most stubborn obsession. It provides over 40 percent of daily...

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Shamsul Islam Khan

Over-reliance on AI: Is it costing us our creativity?

“AI isn’t magic. It’s not a genie in a bottle. It’s a prediction technology- like spreadsheets or the steam engine-just better at certain...

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Zuha Aakif

Mrs Watanabe rides again

There’s disarray, and then there’s 2025. But even by this year’s standards of financial bedlam, the last few days managed to leave most desks...

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Shahab Jafry

Rise and fall of SOEs

State-Owned Ent erprises (SOEs) were once a pride of the nation. During the decade of the seventies a Board of Industrial Management (BIM) was...

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Dr Farid A Malik

Nature is paying the cost of our ‘common sense’

In the age of artificial intelligence, it seems that what we once called “common sense” is now being outsourced to machines—large, powerful,...

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Dr Khurram Ellahi

Market will need justification for consolidation

In a recent development, the government shutdown in the US that occurred during Donald Trump’s first term had a minimal impact. Let’s hope this...

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Asad Rizvi

Claims and counter claims

There is a visible disconnect between two statistics routinely uploaded on the Finance Division’s website in the monthly Outlook and Update dating...

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Anjum Ibrahim

How the Pakistani migrants adjusting to new realities: a perspective

As imperialism destroys one country after the other, the phenomenon of primitive accumulation and accumulation through dispossession by destruction...

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Dr Saulat Nagi

Governance in ESG context

The Global Risks Perception Survey 2022-2023 (GRSP) administered by the World Economic Forum captured the top 10 risks in the two-to-five-year...

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Junaid Shekha

Why Pakistan’s economy stays trapped

Debt, deficits and dysfunction constitute the three fault lines, which define Pakistan’s looming economic reckoning. Pakistan’s economic crisis has...

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