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Even though this is a very old NYTimes article (from 1998), it gives a good idea of what was happening during 1990s. I found this article here i have a lot of respect for Benazir Bhutto but unfortunately Zardari destroyed whatever there was of her legacy... here you go HOUSE OF GRAFT: Tracing...

I keep listening to TV Analysts saying that exchange rate devaluation has not increased exports.... This is TOTALLY wrong! The quantity of exports has increased significantly during the first six months of fiscal year 2019 compared to similar period last year. This is true especially for...

The currency crisis and a way out AHMED JAMAL PIRZADA Weakness in balance of payments (BoP) can amplify the adverse effect of external shocks on the rest of the economy. However, under normal situations, a weakness in the BoP should not persist. As is the case with most markets, the exchange...

Misplaced optimism surrounds monetary policy review THE latest monetary policy announced has moved in the right direction. The policy rate has been reduced further by 0.25 basis points to 5.75pc for the next two months. Even though year-on-year aggregate CPI-based inflation has increased from...

I wrote this article in 2012. But after the Council of Islamic Ideology's call for returning to Gold, it is interesting to read it once again... ... Gold, Fiat Money and the Monetary Management Having read most of the articles which followed the debate in the US on going back to the Gold...

Time to review real effective exchange rate AHMED JAMAL PIRZADA — PUBLISHED ABOUT 18 HOURS AGO A COUNTRY’S export competitiveness in the international market is determined by trade-weighted crucial real effective exchange rate. REER may appreciate even when nominal exchange rate depreciates...

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Investment, crowding out and govt role AHMED JAMAL PIRZADA | IRFAN QURESHI — PUBLISHED ABOUT 17 HOURS AGO WHATSAPP 3 COMMENTS PRINT Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif in a meeting with Chinese Investors held at PM House on January 11. PRIVATE sector investment has been declining at...

The transformation which the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will bring forth may be exaggerated but it surely has expanded the national discourse by introducing elements of economic development to it. Before I proceed, two general points must be made. First, hypothetically speaking...

PESHAWAR: The arrest of Dr Jan Baz Afridi, a former polio officer, by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission on charges of corruption has sent chill down the spines of those who held important positions in health department during the previous government, sources said. They said that the...

Why Pakistan Is Staying Out of Yemen "Pakistan’s decision not to join the Saudi-led intervention against Houthi rebels in Yemen may signal a serious cooling in relations between Islamabad and Riyadh." Louis Ritzinger April 27, 2015 On March 25, a Saudi-led coalition of ten Arab states began...

3-member judicial commission formed to probe alleged election rigging

Yemenis take to streets to condemn Saudi aggression against their country

ASHFAQ YUSUFZAI — PUBLISHED about 10 hours ago WHATSAPP 1 COMMENT PRINT PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department is fast moving to implement the Health Reforms Law as posts of the chief executive (CE) and medical superintendent (MS) have been abolished in the four teaching...

#PMLN & #PTI Talks on Judicial Commission and Special Investigation Team 1. Agreement was reached that establishment of the Judicial Commission (JC) under a specially enacted statute in the form of an Ordinance (rather than the Pakistan Commission of Enquiry Act, 1956) is the way forward. 2...

Shahid Kardar Published a day ago The writer is a former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. A COMMON refrain in Pakistan today is that the role of the middle class and industry has been reduced to earning enough to pay their monthly electricity bills so that entities in the power sector...

#PTI led #nayakpk Govt Imran lauds CM, KP govt for curbing corruption ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has congratulated Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and provincial government for taking on the timber mafia which had been robbing Pakistan of...

PTI: Imran Khan's delicate stitch! I have often participated in heated ideological debates on the issue related to the foundational principles on which Pakistan was established and how it should be governed. But why is it when it comes to supporting PTI and its political slogan of 'Naya...