Hammad Malik

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Numbers don’t lieFinally the state minister for revenue – whatever that title means – let slip what everybody in the government had been denying all this time. It turns out that, all thi

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Let’s hope the new year will be better Not that a market collapse is something to celebrate, but surely I should be allowed a little pat on the back, at least, since<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/28/markets-cry-for-help/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Write that down too! There’s a reason the financial market is called Mr Market. It, more often than not, reads the pulse of the political economy. And, going by Mr Market’s reading<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/15/imf-is-the-next-finance-minister/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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How well did the government do? Two questions this week. One political and one economic. So, first the Kartarpur euphoria. Reviving a long dead promise, putting smiles on faces of Sikh yatrees<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/03/political-and-economic-questions-this-week/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Doesn’t look like it Yet another week has passed with the finance ministry providing no clarity about the immediate economic future. First the government did nothing, leaving investors with the one thing<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/11/is-anybody-looking-out-for-the-share-market/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Is this money going to be any good? Delaying, even claiming to rule out, another IMF program and procuring loans from friendly countries is all very fine, but is all this money<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/11/04/imran-khans-dance-around-donors-2/" title="Read more" >...</a>