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Khurram Husain

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You and your tech

Technology needs to fulfil the most basic requirement first: to do the job at the least cost.

19.12.2024 100

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In search of growth

It is possible to see the same reflexes, which drove earlier liquidity-fuelled growth booms, beginning to express themselves.

12.12.2024 200

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From stability to growth

AN age-old question in Pakistan’s economic management is lurking behind the scenes one more time. How do we transition from economic stabilisation...

05.12.2024 100

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Facing popular upheavals

THE state may have succeeded in pushing the protesters back from the streets of the capital on Tuesday night, but consider what it took to make that...

28.11.2024 200

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Is the economy improving?

IT has now become a routine question. Every TV anchor and people I meet in any gathering all want to know: is it true that the economy is...

21.11.2024 200

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Protecting Chinese investments

THERE are two critical dialogues taking place between the governments of China and Pakistan. One of them concerns the rescheduling of payables owed to...

14.11.2024 100

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A melting world

NOTHING is more important for Pakistan now than to learn to stand on its own feet. The triumph of Donald Trump as the next president of the United...

07.11.2024 200

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Chasing investment

THERE is something about private investment that successive governments in Pakistan have failed to understand. Promoting private investment is a bit...

31.10.2024 100

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Economy under the gavel

MAYBE this is a good time to recall the Reko Diq judgment delivered by one of the most exalted and hailed chief justices of the Supreme Court. Or...

24.10.2024 200

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Quacks, rackets and mobs

THE connection between citizen and state is becoming frayed to an extent I have rarely seen before. In our national conversation, most of the reason...

17.10.2024 100

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Rule by consultants

IT is odd that the government has recruited former State Bank governor Reza Baqir as a consultant to work on building its Sovereign Wealth Fund. Baqir...

10.10.2024 100

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Mixed developments

THE news is not all bad, though the outlook remains gloomy and will take at least a year to rectify. The stabilisation phase of economic management is...

03.10.2024 100

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And audits for all

AN idea is taking shape in a desperate bid to increase revenue collection. This idea would set thousands of auditors loose on those who have been...

26.09.2024 100

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Shaky stability

RARELY have I seen a situation like this one. The economy is finding an uneasy and shaky stability; as inflation peaks, the exchange rate looks like...

19.09.2024 100

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Dar’s diatribe against the IMF

IN remarks reported widely in the media, Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has been quoted complaining that the IMF is playing politics with Pakistan and...

12.09.2024 200

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The precarious balance

A STRING of data releases in the previous week might suggest that the country has turned the corner. This is partially true. But it’s the other...

05.09.2024 100

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Power slipping away

THIS is more or less what it looks like. When power begins to slip from your hands, like sand pouring from between the fingers, the picture looks more...

29.08.2024 100

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Trouble at the start line

RARELY have I seen things as scattered and messy as they are today, in the realm of economic management in any case. At the epicentre of the mess is...

22.08.2024 100

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Powering Pakistan

THE prime minister wants to bring down the cost of electricity. He should start by repairing the fiscal equation of the state. There is no harm in...

15.08.2024 200

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Paying the price

THOSE without a memory can be excused if they think this is the first time a massive public controversy has arisen around the question of electricity,...

08.08.2024 100

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Re-profiling Chinese debt

THERE was one line in Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s remarks last Sunday that caught my eye. In his press conference on that day, he...

01.08.2024 100

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The billionaires bash

THERE is nothing quite like a punch-up among the billionaires. That is exactly what we have going on these days with the whole ‘capacity payments to...

25.07.2024 100

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Pressure building

THERE is no precedent in our history of such a long and intense spell of inflation gripping the country. It has never happened before. Pakistan has...

11.07.2024 100

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Accounting for change

THE resistance to change in Pakistan is an old problem but it wears a new face every few years. These days the resistance to change is wearing the...

20.06.2024 100

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People vs the system

MUCH will be written about the budget’s specifics, but there is something else on my mind this year. This budget marks nearly a quarter century of...

13.06.2024 200

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Unsettled times

DID anybody else find it strange that the government would postpone the announcement of its own budget in order to schedule a trip to China that, it...

06.06.2024 100

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The great CPEC mirage

IF you think China is gearing up for another round of massive business investments in Pakistan then I have a power plant to sell you. No such thing is...

30.05.2024 300

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State Bank’s blind spot

IN its latest State of the Economy report, the State Bank has an interesting chapter on inflation dynamics in Pakistan that is worth a close read. It...

23.05.2024 100

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The road ahead

TALKS opened with the IMF this week. Things are likely to go relatively smoothly, at least in comparison to the previous couple of years, but that...

16.05.2024 100

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The net metering dead end

LET’S start with putting a couple of undue misapprehensions to rest. I have had the opportunity of interacting with key decision-makers in the power...

09.05.2024 100

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LNG case and other travesties

LET’S take some names today. Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is owed an apology now that the so-called National Accountability Bureau...

02.05.2024 70

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The looming test

AS a new-found stability settles across the land all eyes are turning towards its durability. The current account has been registering persistent...

25.04.2024 100

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Shifting gears

AFTER many years of extreme uncertainty and political instability, it now seems like things are finally starting to move. Two developments this week...

18.04.2024 100

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Waking up the World Bank

WORDS only matter when they are spoken at the right time. And for too many years now, the World Bank has been saying the right thing but at the wrong...

04.04.2024 100

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The stone in the shoe

IT has not even been a month since the new government was sworn in and important cracks in its otherwise powerful edifice are already beginning to...

28.03.2024 100

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Rolling back the NFC, again

Rolling back the NFC, againIT is getting boring now. Every so often the idea is floated that the government should roll back the provincial...

21.03.2024 200

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All things awry

WE have a new finance chief, and people are excited that it is a new face and one that inspires some confidence. Since 2008, we have had three names...

14.03.2024 100

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The creditors’ view

IN the days and weeks following the elections, the view held by Pakistan’s creditors seems to be clearing up. All the notes released on Pakistan...

07.03.2024 100

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What awaits the new PM

UNLESS things have gone horribly wrong, Pakistan should be getting a new prime minister very soon after the National Assembly session today. The new...

29.02.2024 100

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Imran Khan’s rise

THERE is no denying that a powerful wave of popular support is surging behind Imran Khan today. There is no sense, and no sanity, in denying this. All...

22.02.2024 100

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Warning for the next PM

THE first thing that incoming prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has to realise is that no matter what happens, no matter how much pressure comes his way...

15.02.2024 100

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Dear voter...

IF you are going to vote today, take out a couple of minutes to read this first. There is no candidate endorsement here. We all want the same thing,...

08.02.2024 70

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The return of Nawaz Sharif

OF all the comebacks he has mounted since his first ouster from power more than 30 years ago, the latest one has been the most improbable. The odds...

01.02.2024 100

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Comparing economic performances

PEOPLE often ask which political party has the best track record of managing the economy and producing the best results. It is a tricky question to...

25.01.2024 100

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Orphaned disputes

THE absence of a decision-making centre in Pakistan’s economic management is now being felt acutely. A string of news emerging in the past week or...

18.01.2024 100

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Reassembling Pakistan

MUCH has been said about “reimagining Pakistan” but it is important to understand that task comes the day after. For now, the focus needs to be on...

11.01.2024 100

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RIP Sartaj Aziz

ONE by one, those with a memory, and those who played a critical role navigating this country through the many crises it has passed through, are...

04.01.2024 100

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Uncertainty ahead

THE country is flying into a new year on the back of a weakly mandated government, a promise to hold elections, and mounting uncertainty from within...

28.12.2023 100

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Hunkering down

A GOOD example of how Pakistan is hunkering down further and further in the face of increasing scarcities is provided by natural gas. Pakistan has...

21.12.2023 100

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What’s up at the stock market?

IN case you are thinking of jumping into the stock market given the sustained gains it has seen since July, be sure to ask yourself a few simple...

14.12.2023 60

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