Op-Ed

Pakistan’s fiscal debates follow a familiar script. Tax collection is too low. The IMF programme is fragile. Debt is rising. Exports are weak. These problems are real. But one of the most consequential threats to the country’s financial…

The continued closure of Pakistani airspace to Indian carriers has emerged as one of the most significant financial challenges facing Air India, severely undermining the airline's profitability and complicating its ambitious transformation…

I happened to visit Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad on 25th June 2026 at around 8:30 pm to inquire about my school junior, Shah Faisal Khan, who was admitted to the A4 block. Since I was on my bicycle, I wanted to leave my…

Pakistan is lucky: all its citizens are equal when it comes to shouldering the debt its elites incur, convincing everyone it’s for the good of all. As the temperature rises, the heat of the plains drives hordes of tourists up to mountain…

Pakistan's industrial decline did not happen by accident. It was a choice, made incrementally over decades, and the country is still paying for it. The most consequential moment came in 1972. When Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto launched…

Let's be clear: the Economic Survey is not a lie. But it is not the truth most Pakistanis live. The numbers are methodologically defensible. The poverty line is official. The unemployment rate follows global definitions. The growth figures…

For more than seven decades, Pakistan and China have shared one of the most enduring and trusted bilateral relationships in modern international relations. From diplomatic cooperation and strategic coordination to economic collaboration and…

Pakistan’s emerging partnership with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait over strategic petroleum storage at Gwadar Port represents far more than an energy infrastructure project. It reflects a broader geopolitical shift in how regional powers are…

As Pakistan approaches another federal budget, the familiar debate has once again begun. Political parties are preparing their talking points, economists are debating fiscal targets, businesses are anxiously watching taxation measures and…

Pakistan’s working-age population grows by roughly 4 million people every year. The formal economy creates, in a good year, fewer than a million jobs. Half the country’s adults never enter the labour force at all. Barely a quarter of its…