EVERY year, the finance industry, both in Pakistan and elsewhere, races to make strategy and outlook documents about how the economy will shape up. It’s a ritual — one that takes up our social media feed and dominates media consumption even if the reality turns out to be starkly different. Maybe that’s the adult version of pretending to have a Palantir, but who among us can claim not to have indul
OVER time, the country’s socio-economic progress has generated and nurtured pluralism that has unfortunately found expression in political polarisation for want of required efforts to seek unity in diversity that can be forged by widely sharing rights, responsibilities and prosperity. On a positive note, the socio-economic progress has unleashed a (assertive) middle class whose presence can onl
THE two historical events of 2023 — the breakout of the Israel-Palestian war and the spread of artificial intelligence — will continue to impact geopolitics and geoeconomics across all geographical regions throughout 2024. The post-May 9 change in Pakistan’s political landscape in 2023 and the post-Israel-Hamas adjustments in the country’s geopolitical stance may impact the February 8, 2024 ele
AS 2023, what the farmers call a disastrous year, wears out, they do not have much hope for 2024 as well. They list expected problems they are expected to face next year, some of them existential in nature: rising cost of production, market cartelisation, profiteering, price crashes, scarcity of seeds, bad and deteriorating governance and agriculture falling out of ruling elite — except of course
AFTER a tumultuous 2023, most people remain “cautiously optimistic” about Pakistan’s economic outlook as we enter the new year, waiting with bated breath for a new government to take office. Last week, we had an interview with Muhammad Ali Tabba, Lucky Cement’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and one of the most dynamic businessmen this country has ever produced, to know his thoughts on Pakistan’s e