Cutting buyback rates
There is a proposal to cut the buyback rate for net metering from Rs 21 per unit to Rs 11 per unit...
Raisi in Pakistan
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi ended his four-day, three–city visit to Pakistan with the shadow of the USA not entirely removed from the...
Raising forex reserves
If the prediction made by the Finance Minister comes true, that foreign exchange reserves will reach $ 9 billion to $10 billion...
By-elections as expected
It was perhaps too soon to expect any change in public opinion, and there were no surprises in any of the by-election...
Trade with Iran
The visit of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is significant for a multitude of reasons, but most of all for its timing. Less...
Sanctions out of the blue
That the USA’s sanctions placed on a Belarusian and three Chinese firms should have caused Pakistan to protest should be surprising, but...
Meeting the IMF MD
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is still cagy about how much Pakistan will ask for
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has met IMF MD Kristalina...
President’s address
President Asif Zardari made the constitutionally mandated address to Parliament to begin the parliamentary year, and was greeted by Opposition protests. Some...
IMF predictions
The real interest in the IMF’s latest Economic Outlooks predictions for Pakistan lie in the fact that Pakistan is about to begin...
Saudi FM’s visit
Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal ibn Farhan was in Pakistan with a large delegation, and by meeting the President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister...
Wooing the IMF
After IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva talked to the Atlantic Council before the arrival of federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in Washington about...
Making sure justice is blind
The recent revelations by a prosecution witness that the son of property tycoon Malik Riaz had transferred 245 kanals of land worth...
Reverse attainder?
Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mahmood Khan Achakzai told the inaugural rally of the Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan that Parliament should quash all...
Dearest place in Asia
With the Opposition Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan launching an anti-government movement on Saturday with a rally in Piishin, in Balochistan province, and with...
IMF wish list
IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva in effect kicked off negotiations with Pakistan by telling the Atlantic Council, which she was addressing, that the country had...