Complementing policies
Recent developments at the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) should serve to bring focus on the current monetary policy and its effect on private...
The evil of consumer financing
The banking sector in Pakistan has robustly been engaged in consumer financing by unleashing a variety of products such as credit cards, auto loans,...
On the home stretch
The issues in Karachi having been resolved rather amicably, with the MQM as usual patching up with the PPP though with some un-cried for...
The tragicomic science
Economics is a tragicomic praxis par excellence. Tragedy and comedy are seen by Aristotle as two different dramatic modes for talking of two opposite...
Search engine marketing
The great strength of world wide web search is that it can locate vast amounts of products matching what any user may ask for....
Governance initiatives
Pakistan's problems of governance do not require as much unknown remedies as they do political will to initiate bold reforms. Unnecessary leakages, high non-development...
The post-modern age
We want Pakistan to deliver. It needs to deliver both at home and in international affairs. There are numerous players in the field to...
A stateless state
Governance, government and governor. The 3 G syndrome has become almost mutually exclusive. The country is a prime case study of a government existing...
Economic costs of war on terror
Amidst a continuous disarray of distractions and chaos, the emotional plight of families losing their loved ones somehow makes a better story than illustrations...
Subliminal marketing
The latter half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st have possibly been the most modernising eras in human history. The...
Sustainable investment
While enabling sustainable, long term investment is essential to contain unemployment and rationalise prices, the government needs to exercise prudence in figuring out the...
The forgotten constitution
We as a people are experiencing an acute case of bad conscience expressed in the form of our collective amnesia which has induced a...
Shari’a and insurance
Is insurance permissible in Islam? A simple answer to the question is in the affirmative, provided that the buying and selling of insurance fulfils...
Bounce back after the Karachi jitters
If it is not one thing, it is another. This last week, starting previous Wednesday, has not been a particularly cheerful one at the...
The investment imperative
While issues of sovereign debt default and stagnating growth dominate international economic headlines, our concerns in Pakistan are more related to increasing poverty, high...
Policy failure
Reduced production in the textile sector is just another example of how flawed government policies, framed at whims of policymakers, have distorted the economy...
Tapping social media capital
The popularity of social media cannot be debated but it is important for any online enterprise to understand how to make use of multiple...
