Shahzad Tahir

Shahzad Tahir

The writer is a chartered accountant

  • Our energy quagmire

    Our energy quagmire

    Pakistan’s per capita electricity consumption remains amongst the lowest regionally and globally

  • Where’s the change?

    Even after seven decades of existence, Pakistan stands as a nascent and fragile democracy. Autonomous institutions, a transparent and meritocratic...

  • A different tune

    In the legend of ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’, the Pied Piper had an acclaimed personage in the town of Hamelin by virtue of his magic flute. He...

  • A flawed fiscal policy

    The financial year 2018-19 began with an unprecedented move when an unelected finance minister presented the incumbent government’s sixth...

  • Responsible expansion?

    The recently proposed country-wide expansion of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan-based state-owned telecom operator, the Special...

  • Neither lies nor deceit

    Apart from the 63,000 people killed during the last one-and-a-half decade, the war on terror has impacted Pakistan’s social, economic, political,...

  • Vulnerabilities and extremism

    In the seventh decade of its independence, our homeland faces an array of challenges. These include an inequitable economic system, ineffective...

  • Barriers to deliverance

    Every year, the finance minister undergoes the hassle of incessantly orating for around two hours when he presents the fiscal policy in parliament....

  • Inefficiency and the power crisis

    The promise to end loadshedding in 30 days, six months, a year or even three years appears to be a sustained slogan of the ruling party since the...

  • Redesign the filter

    History bears testimony to the fact that education is the most sustained and efficient means of progression in society. Let me begin with an...

  • To potential legislators

    In a democratic society, the stance of the contenders for the country’s supreme legislative body should be driven by the issues that the...

  • The cost of coal

    It is understandable that in times of paucity, the utmost and, perhaps, the prime focus of a state is to explore avenues of output maximisation in...

  • The forgotten rights

    Having learned from the atrocities and human rights violations committed in the Second World War, on December 10, 1948, the world predominantly...

  • Remembering Calvin

    It was a cold November night. I was trying to light up the negligible traces of gas blooping after a two-second pause, when my Chinese classmate...