Sunday, May 12, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
The most probable post-election permutation is a coalition government. The three overriding factors for the coalition government will be: the IMF, coalition politics and the PPP’s control over the Senate. The top-three economic ...

Sunday, May 05, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion In economics, demand is "how much of something people want" and supply is "how much of something is available". Price, in a competitive market, is “derived by the interaction of supply and demand” and output is ...

Sunday, April 28, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion No ordinary citizen is he – and that is because of three reasons. First, of the 180 million citizens of this country his life is under the most serious of all threats. Second, he is Pakistan’s ex-president. ...

Sunday, April 21, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion There’s a severe balance of payment crisis; the SBP is running out of dollars. As a consequence, international investor sentiment is negative. Fiscal indiscipline – the difference between government revenue and ...

Sunday, April 14, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion On September 9, 2008, Asif Ali Zardari took oath of office as the eleventh president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Over the past 1,655 days, the residents of the Islamic Republic have weaved 1,655 ...

Sunday, April 07, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion Five hundred years ago, witch-hunting had legal protection. Between the 15th and the 18th century, more than 60,000 ‘witches’ were burnt. Welcome to Election 2013; witch-hunting is back and returning ...

Sunday, March 31, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion Militant infrastructure is about three things: money, muscle and terrain. Pakistan is infested with four types of militants: anti-Pakistan, anti-America, anti-India and sectarian. The first thing that ...

Sunday, March 24, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
In the political arena, President Asif Ali Zardari has laid the foundation of three traditions that Pakistan’s political history has so far been completely devoid of: politics of reconciliation, not to use the FIA and NAB to settle ...

Sunday, March 17, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
Capital suggestion Intention, capacity and delivery. He wanted to give 300,000 really deserving, low-income passengers a more respectable, a more efficient and a cheaper way to commute between Gajju Matta and Shahdara. He gave ...

Thursday, March 14, 2013
Dr Farrukh Saleem
The good news is that Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has resigned. The bad news is that Senator Saleem H Mandviwalla is doling out rupees, as if rupees were going out of fashion. PIA gets Rs100 billion, PPP MNAs get billions more for their ...