Mansoor Ahmad

  • Comment: Our social crisis

    The image is an abstract financial chart that visually represents stock market trends and data. — The News/File LAHORE: Pakistan’s economic...

  • Comment: Alarming exits

    The P&G logo can be seen on their building. —P&G website/FileLAHORE: Pakistan is witnessing a quiet but consequential economic trend: the steady...

  • Comment: Our growth ceiling

    This picture shows a general view of the Karachi sea port. — AFP/File LAHORE: Businesses in Pakistan continue to press the State Bank of Pakistan...

  • Comment: Missing link to financial inclusion

    An undated image of a State Bank of Pakistan building in this undated image. — SBP Website/FileLAHORE: Financial inclusion nowadays is a policy...

  • Comment: Action over rhetoric

    The representational image shows Federal Finance Minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb unveiling the Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25, a pre-budget document...

  • Comment: Fighting poverty without money

    A representational image showing a child vendor selling face masks. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: It is time to recognise that not every solution to...

  • COMMENT: Building the brand Pakistan

    The representational image shows a person holding a Pakistani flag. — Reuters/File LAHORE: While Pakistan’s challenge is centred around its...

  • Comment: Strategic shift

    The representational image shows people shopping for gold ornaments at a jewellery showroom during Dhanteras, a Hindu festival associated with...

  • Staggering cost of inefficient procurement

    A representational image of a currency dealer counting Rs500 notes. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Public procurement is the process through which governments...

  • Pakistan Railways to modernise network

    A representational image of a passenger train. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Minister for Railways Hanif Abbasi has said that now is the best time and...

  • Comment: A flood of imports

    Women and children shop from a stall in a market in Karachi on May 11, 2020. — ReutersLAHORE: Pakistan’s domestic manufacturers and ultimately...

  • Comlment: The $1bn opportunity

    Women stitch export quality garments in a factory in Sialkot on October 12, 2022. — APPLAHORE: Pakistan’s entrepreneurs could find the new...

  • Comment: Eight reforms Pakistan cannot delay

    Representational image of a economic growth. — APP FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s allies, Saudi Arabia, China, the US, etc — can lend money, but they...

  • COMMENT: Is inefficiency worse than corruption?

    The representational image shows money being delivered as bribery. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Corruption can sometimes be isolated and addressed through...

  • COMMENT: Elusive sustainable development

    A view of Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Sustainable development cannot grow in the shade of political timidity. The real reform...

  • Serve the people, not the powerful

    Two women and a girl child seen in this undated photo. — AFP/File LAHORE: The need for social politics has never been greater. Pakistan’s...

  • MCB Bank reports Rs41.1bn profit

    The MCB's logo is seen on a wall outside the bank's head office. — MCB website/FileLAHORE: The board of directors of MCB Bank Limited declared a...

  • Pakistan at a crossroads

    Motorists face difficulties due to the road being closed with trucks at Murree Road Faizabad area in Rawalpindi on October 18, 2024. —...

  • Comment: Bridging Pakistan’s two economies

    The image is a conceptual representation of artificial intelligence in finance, specifically in the context of stock market analysis or trading....