Mansoor Ahmad

  • November 19, 2025

    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...

  • November 18, 2025

    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...

  • November 16, 2025

    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...

  • November 15, 2025

    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...

  • November 12, 2025

    Comment: Action over rhetoric

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

  • November 11, 2025

    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...

  • November 09, 2025

    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...

  • November 08, 2025

    Comment: Strategic shift

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

  • November 07, 2025

    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...

  • November 05, 2025

    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...

  • November 02, 2025

    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...

  • November 01, 2025

    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...

  • October 30, 2025

    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...

  • October 29, 2025

    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...

  • October 25, 2025

    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...

  • October 24, 2025

    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...

  • October 23, 2025

    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...

  • October 22, 2025

    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. —...

  • October 16, 2025

    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....

  • October 12, 2025

    A fractured system

    People buy groceries at Akbari Mandi in Lahore on March 9, 2025. — OnlineLAHORE: The economy cannot acquire the required speed, nor can poverty be...

  • October 10, 2025

    A vicious circle

    People shop at a market in Karachi in this file photo. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Economic inequality in Pakistan continues to widen, and much of the blame...

  • October 09, 2025

    COMMENT: Our economic strategy

    A person Counting Pakistan's Currency. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan is trying to deepen security and finance ties with Gulf states while keeping...

  • October 08, 2025

    COMMENT: How technology could shape our next decade

    A representational image of a person coding. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The technological landscape in 2025 is not just ‘smarter’ phones and cheaper...

  • October 05, 2025

    Comment: The future of our economy

    A trader counts Pakistani rupee notes at a currency exchange booth in Peshawar. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s economy needs strong leadership...

  • October 04, 2025

    Comment: Lower inflation and consumer reality

    A representational image showing customers buying medicines at a pharmacy. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: While it is true that when inflation eases...

  • October 04, 2025

    LCCI demands low energy tariff

    The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry building in Lahore. — Facebook@LahoreChamberofCommerce&Industry/FileLAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of...

  • October 02, 2025

    Comment: Reforms for sustaining improved perception

    A man carrying national flags walks through a street on the eve of the Independence Day celebrations in Peshawar on August 13, 2023. — AFPLAHORE:...

  • September 28, 2025

    Comment : How to avoid past mistakes

    People shop at a market in Karachi in this file photo. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Twelve years ago, in 2013, experts warned that Pakistan’s reliance on...

  • September 27, 2025

    Sri Lanka seeks deeper trade ties with Pakistan

    Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Pakistan Rear Admiral Fred Senevirathne pictured on September 9, 2025. — Facebook@slhcislamabadLAHORE: Sri...

  • September 24, 2025

    Comment: Breaking the poverty trap

    A representational image showing men distributing food to people. — AFP/FileLAHORE: A recent Unicef dataset sheds light on a troubling paradox: in...

  • September 23, 2025

    Comment: Why digital friction still holds us back

    A representational image of an internet cable. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: Over a decade since Pakistan was ranked among the lowest in the Boston...

  • September 21, 2025

    Comment: Our growth dilemma

    Women buy grocery at a wholesale market in Lahore's Akbari Market. — Online/FileLAHORE: Our economy is again struggling with the same hurdles it...

  • September 20, 2025

    Comment: How defence pact raises Pakistan’s stature, economic hopes

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sign the landmark Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement in Riyadh, Saudi...

  • September 16, 2025

    Comment: The slippery slope

    Vendors are selling vegetables at a market in Lahore on March 26, 2023. — OnlineLAHORE: The past decade shows that Pakistan can meet revenue...

  • September 13, 2025

    Shrinking global trade share

    This image shows shipping activity at Port Qasim, Karachi. — APP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s share of global merchandise trade has been on a steady...

  • September 11, 2025

    Why our future depends on livestock sector

    Livestock vendors display their cattle for sell at Bhatta Chowk, as the market gears up for the upcoming Eid al-Adha celebrations in Rawalpindi on...

  • September 10, 2025

    How to tackle our water crisis

    People look on as sewage water flows towards the sea in Karachi. —APP/FileLAHORE Pakistan’s water crisis is a reality that is crippling...

  • September 06, 2025

    Turning spices into export muscle

    A shopkeeper speaks with a customer while selling spices at a market in Karachi on June 11, 2024. — ReutersLAHORE: Pakistan’s spice exports,...

  • September 05, 2025

    Pakistan’s digital revolution

    People work at their stations at the National Incubation Centre in Lahore. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s financial sector was relatively...

  • September 04, 2025

    Job creation through exports

    This image shows shipping activity at Port Qasim, Karachi. — APP/FileLAHORE: In times of global economic uncertainty, when headlines are dominated...

  • September 03, 2025

    The hidden cost of contract workers

    Labourers are busy in their work at brick kilns, as International Labour Day is celebrated on May 1 every year on May 1, 2024. — APPLAHORE:...

  • August 31, 2025

    COMMENT: The hidden cost of governance failures

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chairs meeting to review progress on the digitisation of FBR in Islamabad, July 14, 2025. — PIDLAHORE: In any nation...

  • August 30, 2025

    Our path to prosperity lies in equal opportunity

    Students in an exam at a government school in Peshawar. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: The road to prosperity is not paved with slogans or selective...

  • August 28, 2025

    Much-needed reforms

    The seal of the International Monetary Fund is seen in Washington DC, USA. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The Pakistan economy continues to tread a perilous...

  • August 27, 2025

    An unstable growth model

    Protestors have blocked a road at Colony Gate located on Sharea Faisal in Karachi on December 27, 2024. — PPILAHORE: Pakistan stands halfway on...

  • August 26, 2025

    A hidden revenue leak

    Shipping containers are stacked at Port Qasim in Karachi. — APP/FileLAHORE: Under-invoicing of imports — the practice of declaring artificially...

  • August 24, 2025

    COMMENT: Pakistan’s real job crisis

    Open office workspace is seen in this image.— Reuters/FileLAHORE: Pakistan’s unemployment problem continues to deepen, not because of a wave of...

  • August 23, 2025

    The human side of businesses

    A representational image shows people working in a company. — AFP/FileLAHORE: In Pakistan’s business landscape, conversations about...

  • August 21, 2025

    Pakistan’s untapped biomass

    Representational image of chinese scientists working on biomass. —TheNews/FileLAHORE: In 2013, a joint study by GIZ Germany and the All Pakistan...