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Asian Development Bank issues $100m green bond

Five-year bond to raise awareness of glacier melt, engaging with investors on ADB’s projects and programmes.

05.03.2026 40

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Sakib Sherani

The IMF’s culpability

By endorsing sham austerity, IMF has failed its duty-of-care responsibility to Pakistanis.

05.03.2026 60

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Trapped in sham austerity

Pakistanis have been crushed by fiscal austerity while the ruling elite has never had it better.

03.01.2026 100

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Demonising the NFC Award

The NFC Award’s real failure is not its formula but the misgovernance of the ruling elite.

06.12.2025 100

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The eternal wait for Godot

Pakistan’s current organising principle as a polity is incompatible with development.

16.08.2025 100

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State of the economy

Beyond the official hype, the economic reality of ordinary Pakistanis is dire.

12.06.2025 150

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March of folly

South Asia needs peace, not another doctrine that further lowers the threshold of all-out war.

24.05.2025 70

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Kicking away the ladder

The US has championed free trade and benefited immensely, but has practised it selectively.

17.04.2025 40

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From hard to harder

Instead of ‘hard state’ turning even harder, citizens deserve a state that goes soft on them in delivering democratic and development aspirations.

03.04.2025 100

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Predatory taxation

Pakistan’s tax regime is anti-growth and investment, anti-documentation and inequitable.

20.03.2025 80

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Sakib Sherani