HEC founding chairman Dr Attaur Rehman at the time of Musharaf, now chairperson of Prime Minister’s taskforce on Science and Technology in PIT government and a well-known scientists of Pakistan (Organic Chemistry),…
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Economy of Pakistan under new Management
Assad Umar has now been replaced with Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh who has remained Finance Minister for the Zardari government and in Musharraf time between 2010 and 2013 and 2000 and 2002….
How PKR Depreciation can be controlled
PKR is vacillating around RS 143 per US for some time. In Sept 2018 it was Rs 121/- . Hence within a month it has depreciated by 14%. This has started a…
What kind of Political System Pakistan requires
After 8 months in power, and lashing on PML N and PPP making them responsible for every issue in Pakistan, PTI is now switching towards another debate and that is to install…
Wrong Step of SBP in May 2018 creating negative impact on the Market
By incident on approach to Askari Bank Malir Cantt, I came to know that non-filers are not allowed to open foreign currency accounts. It is agreed that efforts are required to clean…
Prime Issue of Pakistan-Fiscal and Current Account Deficits
Immediate economic problem of the PTI government are highly bulged twin deficits i.e. current and fiscal deficits. In fact both are two faces of the same coin. For this PTI government is…
War against ISIS and Al-Qaida and all kinds of Terrorism
General Aslam Baig former COAS of Pakistan in his article “Caliphate is Gone, but ISIS is Not” published in Newyork Times on 28th March 2019 has well defined that “The ISIS phenomenon…
2019 with coming year of 2020 for Pakistan economy
The past few days have seen SBP raise policy rate by 50bp 1.e 10.75% and March inflation coming in at 9.4%. But SBPs tone looks worried pointing out elevated levels of inflation,…
Pakistan under two sided pressure
One is from FATF a global task force that has already asked Islamabad to comply with 40 recommendations made by the Force in January 2019. Now another force i.e. APG an inter-governmental…
4th Annual Mobile Commerce & Digital Banking Summit & Exhibition 2019
For giving a look over current state of Pakistan economy and role of digitalization in its growth a conference was held at Marriot Hotel Karachi on 27th March 2019. President Karachi Chamber…