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Friday March 28, 2025
Furqan Ali

  • March 24, 2025

    The Dutch Disease trap

    Ghalib penned, “I go along some distance with every swift walker/ I do not yet recognise the guide.” This perfectly unspools the dilemma that...

  • March 14, 2025

    Till debt do us part

    Debt-to-GDP ratio, which stood at 51% in 2009-10, peaked at 74% in 2019-20 and remains alarmingly high at 65% in 2023-24

  • March 10, 2025

    The price of short-term fixes

    The first review of the $7 billion Extended Fund Facility by the IMF is ongoing, making this a fitting moment to assess the macroeconomic landscape...

  • February 03, 2025

    The enigma of 1010

    The angel number, ‘1010’, is an enigmatic combination of numerology and spiritual circles. The number 1 signifies fresh starts, while 0...

  • January 26, 2025

    AI-led taxation

    There needs to be radical transformation; without it, dramatic re-engineering of FBR processes and dealings is not possible

  • January 03, 2025

    The education cul-de-sac

    Gender disparities are pronounced in KP, where girls account for 64% of OOSC

  • December 23, 2024

    Revenue reform or illusion?

    Multilateral Development Agencies are often criticised for offering superficial, template-like reforms that target symptoms instead of addressing...

  • December 10, 2024

    Beyond the numbers

    Author says Pakistan has achieved year-on-year headline inflation rate of 4.9 per cent, lowest since May 2018

  • October 22, 2024

    Accounting for the unaccounted

    According to UN Women, women perform more than three-quarters of unpaid care and domestic work

  • October 10, 2024

    A case for gendered mobility

    Right from Greeks, women have been otherised by their so-called ‘stronger’ male counterparts

  • August 31, 2024

    Is our nervous system in disarray?

    In context of country, ‘nervous system’ can represent institutions and networks that control and respond to nation's needs

  • August 19, 2024

    Deconstructing Pakistan’s fiscal ‘win’

    The Ministry of Finance recently published fiscal operations figures for FY2024. And -- gee whiz! -- it has reported a primary surplus of Rs953...

  • July 28, 2024

    Symptom vs cause

    If we want to exist as a nation on the globe, ruling elite must do away with this pathological language of blaming others

  • June 22, 2024

    (A)I think, therefore I am

    Digitalization of world, or what people call ‘transformation of world into a global village’, has added new dimension to human connectivity