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Khurram Husain

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Manias and magic bullets

Something important is trying to speak through these manias that break out regularly every few years.

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Living with dysfunction

The same labour and capital inputs today will generate lesser output, produce fewer jobs and lift fewer people out of poverty.

13.11.2025 70

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NFC and the 27th amendment

NFC and the 27th amendment

THE provincial governments are under pressure to free up resources from their share of transfers under the NFC award to help meet defence and debt...

06.11.2025 200

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Adapt or die

Adapt or die

Nothing good has ever come out of the proposals the business community has been bringing to the government.

30.10.2025 100

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Hungering for growth

The problem is how to restart growth after stabilisation in a way that does not lead to a resurgence of the same deficits all over again.

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Withering geoeconomics

All signs are now pointing in the direction of yet another incoming geopolitical rent.

16.10.2025 100

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Pakistan, seen from Europe

Something important has changed and Pakistan’s stock in the eyes of the European capitals has risen.

09.10.2025 100

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A bailout too far

The largest priority for Pakistan was the search for resources with which to fire up the next growth spurt.

02.10.2025 80

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Lighting the way

The country’s growth model has run its course.

25.09.2025 100

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Guns and money

Put our rulers on the geopolitical chessboard and suddenly they are on home turf.

18.09.2025 200

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Three years, three uprisings

The uprisings in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal were all organic.

11.09.2025 100

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Extracting dollars

The state is trying to extract more revenues, and more dollars from an economy that is not able to supply these.

04.09.2025 100

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The million cusec problem

Rather than heckling and abusing each other, the ruling political parties need to realise that they are all facing a common enemy:

28.08.2025 100

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Floods and politics

There is much that each provincial government needs to do to increase preparedness for the natural disasters hitting the country.

21.08.2025 100

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The tide turns

The belief now surging is that Israel is committing genocide.

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Two things to beware

We are not resilient because we choose to be. We are resilient because we have to be.

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A hybrid wasteland

Today, the political parties are in greater disarray than they have been in the past quarter century.

31.07.2025 200

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The growing resource hunger

The relentless tightening of conditions in the economy reflects the erosion of the underlying financial and economic viability of the state.

24.07.2025 100

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FBR powers

Having failed to broaden the tax net, they are now talking of ‘tax deepening’.

17.07.2025 100

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A world in change

Two revolutions can transform our world and lived experience in ways we can barely imagine.

10.07.2025 200

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Blood from a stone

Even the "people’s representative" were more worried about the rights of non-filers and fraudsters than of compliant taxpayers.

03.07.2025 60

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Blood from stone

Even the ‘people’s representatives’ were more worried about the rights of non-filers and fraudsters than of compliant taxpayers.

03.07.2025 100

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The wages of hybridity

The need for reform, for change, is more evident than perhaps it ever was.

26.06.2025 100

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Taxman’s powers of arrest

The legislators are right to look at how regressive the new tax measures are.

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Thrashing around

There is not a single reform measure in this budget. No strategic change of direction is indicated anywhere.

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Budgeting on sacrifice

Rarely have conditions been so favourable for a government to do something big and transformative.

05.06.2025 100

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Fictitious assets

The resources the government will put at risk if it ventures into the world of crypto are public resources.

29.05.2025 100

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State vs industry

Industry is at a loss for words when describing what is about to happen.

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The fallout

Reality is stubborn, and two things bring home reality better than anything else: war and the economy.

15.05.2025 100

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Modi, Kashmir and Pakistan

Modi’s model of development rested on the ability to efficiently dispossess people and take land required for large-scale projects.

08.05.2025 200

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Indus water wars

Quite obviously, India has not only been harbouring wishes to exit the IWT, but also preparing the ground for doing so — for

01.05.2025 200

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Canals and minerals

The entire supply chain for industry is now disrupted as the protests are escalating.

24.04.2025 100

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TRUMP’S TARIFFS WHAT THEY MEAN FOR THE WORLD

As US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs trigger worldwide market chaos and geopolitical fallout, the question on everyone’

20.04.2025 100

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China and Pakistan

From China’s perspective, it seems that Pakistan has lost its shine.

17.04.2025 100

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Tariff crossfire

The bigger picture here is brutal in its simplicity, and critical in its importance.

10.04.2025 80

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The day of the tariffs

Watching the Trump tariffs roll in while our own prime minister congratulated himself, his team and the power of prayer for being able to pass through...

04.04.2025 20

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Losing the plot

It was the likes of Ahluwalia who recognised that the economic strategy would have to change, away from "import substitution" towards liberalisation.

03.04.2025 80

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Fleecing lambs

All’s well that ends well. But it’s a good idea nonetheless to find lessons to draw from such episodes.

27.03.2025 80

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Beasts of burden

What is broken in our power system is not the explosive growth of net-metering beneficiaries.

20.03.2025 100

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Eroding bases of power

Each growth spurt is shorter and shallower than the one that came before it.

13.03.2025 80

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The last mile

If businesses are not taxed, taxes on salaried people will either have to be raised very sharply, or taxes on fuel and electricity will have to do the...

06.03.2025 100

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Advancing uncertainty

Who can say with total confidence that the IMF and its affiliated institutions will even exist after five years?

27.02.2025 100

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Peak stability

If history is any guide, it is possible we could be sitting on this inflection point now.

20.02.2025 100

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PTI’s losing gambit

A country the size of Pakistan should never allow itself to come this close to the edge of catastrophe.

13.02.2025 80

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Faking growth with real estate

The real meat comes where the industry proposals start, such as halving the property sale tax from 4pc to 2pc.

06.02.2025 70

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The clamour rises

The State Bank is doing a very tough job at a very tough time. It has only just finished putting out the most ferocious...

30.01.2025 80

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Unsustainable stability

The external account seems to be healthy, so why is the state still taking expensive loans from commercial banks?

23.01.2025 100

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Fight over resources

The idea is that with rising competition for control over the system’s resources, staying within budgetary allocations becomes...

16.01.2025 100

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The four-way balance

So far, the finance minister has extracted as much revenue as he could from taxing existing taxpayers.

09.01.2025 100

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Year of stabilisation

STOCK brokers monitor share prices at the PSX. — Dawn archive The year 2024 ended more or less the same way it began, with Pakistan struggling to...

03.01.2025 7

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