Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
The people of Pakistan have made known their will through the ballot on May 11, 2013. The PML-N has emerged as the clear winner and will be able to form a stable government at the centre with support from independents and smaller ...

Tuesday, May 07, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
Part - II In the first part of this article (April 30) I summarised the economic challenges that the new government will inherit, suggesting ways to address them particularly in the light of recent global developments on the ...

Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
If everything goes well, Pakistan should see a new post-election government taking charge of the state soon. The new government will inherit numerous economic and social problems – the redressal of which will certainly be ...

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP) launched its flagship document – the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013 (hereafter survey) simultaneously in 35 locations around the ...

Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
Economic experts within and outside Pakistan unanimously agree that the country’s economy has never been in such a bad shape as it is today. Five years of economic mismanagement and poor governance by the previous regime have not ...

Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
I have been writing on economic issues for almost four years. In each article, the growing weaknesses of Pakistan’s economy and policy inaction have been identified and suggestions made to arrest the declining trend in the economy. ...

Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
Turncoat or ‘lota’ is a familiar word for the people of Pakistan. It is a pejorative commonly used for our politicians who change parties frequently at the altar of ‘national interest’. A less known, albeit not less contemptible ...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
The outgoing government presented its fifth and last budget on June 1, 2012. Since the year 2012-13 was an election year, the intention of the government was totally inconsistent with the presented budgetary numbers. Reckless ...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
There appears to be a serious disconnect between most of the analysts, including myself, and the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on the emerging debt repayment crisis. On the issue of the looming debt repayment crisis ...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Dr Ashfaque H Khan
Political tsunami, as popularised by Imran Khan, is now well-known in Pakistan. What is not known is ‘financial tsunami’, which has struck Pakistani shores in the last two weeks. This tsunami will continue to inundate the financial ...