Remittance-led surplus masks deep structural faults
While Pakistan closed the fiscal year with a rare current account surplus, the broader economic ...
Pakistan’s youth boom vs. job bust
Pakistan stands at a perplexing crossroads — teeming with a teeming youth populace brimming with ...
Rain disaster: a call to action
Pakistan is once again in the grip of a highly destructive annual weather cycle. Unusually ...
Businessmen’s strike against excessive taxation
The country’s major chambers of commerce and industry observed a nation-wide strike on July 19, ...
Gaza is running out of blood
I live near Nasser Hospital in the west of Khan Younis city. Almost every day, ...
Industrial revival or bureaucratic maze?
After decades of industrial atrophy, Pakistan’s long-awaited 10-year industrial policy arrives with promises of reform ...
Pakistan’s vanishing workforce
Beneath the government’s gleaming façade of economic revival — with inflation cooling, the rupee steady, ...
Gender gap index ranks Pakistan at the bottom
The 2025 Global Gender Gap Index examines gender parity in 148 countries, and analyses gender ...
Youth unemployment– a silent crisis
According to noted economist Dr Hafiz A Pasha, unemployment in the country now is as ...
Economic winds start shifting?
A blend of moderating inflation, spirited export growth, and buoyant remittance inflows is reconfiguring Pakistan’s ...