Sakib Berjees
Sakib Berjees

  • November 13, 2025

    The discount rate reality

    A man counts dollars and other currency notes. —AFP/FileThe discount rate of any nation is not just a monetary number but a confession of a...

  • November 13, 2025

    The discount rate reality

    A man counts dollars and other currency notes. —AFP/FileThe discount rate of any nation is not just a monetary number but a confession of a...

  • October 29, 2025

    We have a crisis of confidence

    A foreign currency dealer counts US dollar notes at a currency market in Karachi on July 19, 2022. — AFPOver the past decade, Pakistan has...

  • October 29, 2025

    We have a crisis of confidence

    A foreign currency dealer counts US dollar notes at a currency market in Karachi on July 19, 2022. — AFPOver the past decade, Pakistan has...

  • October 13, 2025

    Pakistan’s civil service crisis

    The representational image shows the signboard of Civil Services Academy Pakistan. — APP/FileThere was a time when joining the Pakistan Civil...

  • October 13, 2025

    Pakistan’s civil service crisis

    The representational image shows the signboard of Civil Services Academy Pakistan. — APP/FileThere was a time when joining the Pakistan Civil...

  • October 01, 2025

    The taxation system needs reform

    A representative image for tax. — Reuters/FileOur system today is in moral bankruptcy. Our tax system has become a tool of harassment for the...

  • October 01, 2025

    The taxation system needs reform

    A representative image for tax. — Reuters/FileOur system today is in moral bankruptcy. Our tax system has become a tool of harassment for the...

  • September 19, 2025

    The problem lies in the system

    Representational image of a gravel. —Unsplash/FileOur many political experiments have all failed because no one addressed rule of law and good...

  • September 19, 2025

    The problem lies in the system

    Representational image of a gravel. —Unsplash/FileOur many political experiments have all failed because no one addressed rule of law and good...

  • September 02, 2025

    Three nations, three destinies

    In this picture taken on April 16, 2023, people throng a market area in Lahore. — AFPHistory moves in cycles – rising, pausing, reinventing. It...

  • September 02, 2025

    Three nations, three destinies

    In this picture taken on April 16, 2023, people throng a market area in Lahore. — AFPHistory moves in cycles – rising, pausing, reinventing. It...

  • August 18, 2025

    No regulation, just speculation

    This image shows the aerial view of a town. — AFP/FileIn every civilisation’s rise, land is not merely soil; it is sovereignty, security, and...

  • August 18, 2025

    No regulation, just speculation

    In every civilisation’s rise, land is not merely soil; it is sovereignty, security, and the stage upon which nations write their destiny. In...

  • August 01, 2025

    The fatal arithmetic of the NFC

    Stacks of Pakistani rupee notes seen in this undated image. — AFP/FileIn the corridors of Pakistan’s democracy, a silence has settled – one...

  • August 01, 2025

    The fatal arithmetic of the NFC

    Stacks of Pakistani rupee notes seen in this undated image. — AFP/FileIn the corridors of Pakistan’s democracy, a silence has settled – one...

  • July 22, 2025

    Rewriting Pakistan’s economic destiny

    Representational image of people buy pulses and grains at a wholesale market. — AFP/File There comes a time in a nation’s history when mere...

  • July 22, 2025

    Rewriting Pakistan’s economic destiny

    Representational image of people buy pulses and grains at a wholesale market. — AFP/File There comes a time in a nation’s history when mere...

  • July 11, 2025

    Straightening the spine of the state

    The State Bank of Pakistan building in Karachi. — SBP website/FileThe republic never designed its regulators to be mere file-keepers or penalty...

  • July 11, 2025

    Straightening the spine of the state

    The State Bank of Pakistan building in Karachi. — SBP website/FileThe republic never designed its regulators to be mere file-keepers or penalty...

  • June 30, 2025

    The tyranny of sugar

    I have watched the rise of Pakistan’s sugar industry with dismay. What began as an agro-based industrial promise has, over the years, turned...

  • June 30, 2025

    The tyranny of sugar

    I have watched the rise of Pakistan’s sugar industry with dismay. What began as an agro-based industrial promise has, over the years, turned into...

  • June 22, 2025

    Pakistan's quiet moment

    In face of intensifying Iran-Israel hostilities, Pakistan must resist seduction of emotional impulse

  • September 15, 2020

    The accountability syndrome

    The doctrine of separation of powers demands that the legislature, executive and the judiciary must work within their boundaries. In Pakistan,...