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Diverting traffic

There are suggestions that all the heavy vehicular traffic that passes through main arteries of Karachi be diverted to the Lyari Expressway...

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Zia Ul Islam Zuberi

The power sector - some hard facts

Among many sectors of fiscal drain, the circular debt of the energy sector is one area on the economic landscape of Pakistan which is acting as a...

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Farhat Ali

Partly Facetious: Maryam far better than Buzdar?

“So is power talking to power?” “Will you give a break to Notification Maryam Nawaz (NMN). She is better than The Buzz in any case, isn’t...

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Anjum Ibrahim

The wheat woes

I would love to live in the utopian world of the neoliberal economist, where the market determines the exchange rate, market forces determine the...

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Dr Muhammad Fahim Khan

Neoliberal economic policy, and political economic outcomes

In a number of interviews after becoming finance minister, there is a sense of naivety reflected in the thoughts of. Muhammad Aurangzeb when he...

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Dr Omer Javed

The fault lines of US foreign aid

On 24 April, US President Joe Biden signed the legislation providing $87 billion in aid for Ukraine and Israel, in which Ukraine takes a lion’s...

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Zhao Shiren

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Maryam has shown her mettle

“I haven’t seen the apple of Nawaz Sharif’s eye for quite a few days now!” “You mean Notification Maryam Nawaz (NMN)?” “Yes, hey, too...

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Anjum Ibrahim

Counterproductive trickle-down economic effect

The critique of Western universities and certain schools of thought advocating for economic models based on the trickle-down effect raises...

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Dr Murtaza Khuhro

Domestic solar: the way forward—I

News is circulating that the adoption of solar power on a large scale by well-to-do domestic customers in Pakistan is burdening the ordinary...

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Khalid Faizi

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Maryam should give motorbikes to her own daughters

“What do you think of Notification Maryam Nawaz (NMN) issuing a notification to provide free motorbikes to girls, and she has requested parents...

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Anjum Ibrahim

Electricity tariffs

In Pakistan, it is a known fact that electricity is costly as compared to other countries of the region and its cost is ever inflating, but it is...

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Abu Bakar Ismail

The mirage of financial freedom

The tantalizing promise of “financial freedom” has always been a magnet for the middle class, the unskilled, and the unemployed in Pakistan....

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Usama Abdul Rauf

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Orange a colour that really doesn’t suit women in Punjab

“I can’t understand this obsession with colours.” “Well, some colours suit one skin type and doesn’t another.” “That I understand, what...

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Anjum Ibrahim

No-cost expensive motivators

We have low attrition rates. Retention rates are high. These two claims by the top leaders of a company are big achievement for the companies. The...

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Andleeb Abbas

Uncertain budgetary outcome in 2023-24

The outcome numbers on the fiscal operations for the first three quarters of 2023-24 have been released recently by the Federal Ministry of...

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Dr Hafiz A Pasha

Wheat, wheat everywhere…

The wheat crisis has thrown up a host of troubling questions that revolve around the persistent wisdom that in our governance system, the left hand...

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Rashed Rahman

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Dar the SSP

“What do you think of the performance of the Samdhi in Search of Portfolios (SSP)?” “Brings to mind a rather junior position in police.”...

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Anjum Ibrahim

The dumb national electricity policy of 2021

A good public policy is one that addresses a societal problem effectively, is based on evidence and research, considers the needs and perspectives...

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Engr Tahir Basharat Cheema

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