Former Federal Minister of Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs.
Vendors are selling vegetables at a market in Lahore on March 26, 2023....
People walk past flags of Pakistan's political parties displayed for sale...
Police commandos from Federal Board of Revenue shift boxes with copies...
A technician fixes new electricity meters at a residential building in...
An undated photo of the National Assembly of Pakistan.— The...
The International Monetary Fund's building in Washington, United States....
Stacks of Pakistani rupee notes seen in this undated image. —...
National Economic Council approved ‘development’ expenditures of Rs2869 billion for four provinces
Budget figures, as they are in billions of rupees, can sometimes be hard for us to understand
Pakistan has second highest neonatal mortality in world; in education sector, country's 26 million kids are out of school
We need a government to protect us from external enemies, and anarchy and lawlessness at home
These days we also see PML-N and establishment supporters argue that those judges who rule in favour of Imran Khan must be ‘sahulatkar’ judges
Old habits die hard and this is true for this PML-N budget as well
Our economic growth rate is an anaemic 2.2%, which is less than our population growth rate of 2.55 per cent
It would be a favour to Pakistan if our government stopped setting wheat and sugarcane prices
Not surprisingly, our youth see no hope for the future
A representational image showing people at a busy market in Pakistan. —...
The reason is misaligned incentives. In eleven out of the last 13 years, our provincial governments have run a surplus
Politicians make promises before elections and try to implement at least...
The senseless and completely avoidable tragedy in Murree is the result of...
Loadshedding is back. In some places for two hours a day, in some places...
We should note that over the last three years, the PTI has decreased the tax-to-GDP ratio from 12.6 percent to 9.9 percent, writes Miftah Ismail
In my column on Jan 1, I asked: “What has the PTI done for Pakistan...
Natural gas is environmentally friendly and the most efficient form of...
It’s been a long two and a half years of this hybrid rule, halfway to a normal parliamentary tenure. It is time to ask: what has the PTI delivered in this time?
The writer has served as federal minister for finance, revenue and...
Making a budget for Pakistan is always tough but it has been particularly...
The writer has served as federal minister for finance, revenue and...
A few days back, the Sugar Inquiry Commission report was made public, as...
Modern calculations confirm that a solar eclipse occurred on January 27,...
A few days ago, a PTI supporter on Twitter asked people to name a single...
The coronavirus pandemic is the gravest crisis Pakistan has faced. The...
Our prime minister has for years repeated his corruption allegations ad nauseum against Mian Nawaz Sharif and PML-N leaders. And yet there are three major facts that exonerate Nawaz Sharif and the...
When I presented the budget last year, the PTI created a lot of ruckus...
Every year, the government of Pakistan publishes a report called the...
This fiscal year, July 2018 to June 2019, is proving to be the worst for...
I was in Barcelona on a business trip when I saw a street vendor selling...
On May 31, 2108, almost a year ago, when the PML-N government finished...
It is now painfully obvious that PM Imran Khan is not suitable for governance. So, having borrowed half of Asif Zardari’s cabinet, Khan may now want to borrow another idea from him.
Whether in cotton or wheat, or many other agricultural products, the...
So perhaps PM Khan has been making these exaggerated promises because he never understood the complexity or difficulty of governance given his own lack of experience and competence in governance. He...
China recently landed a probe on the far side of the moon. The moon both...
Think of a company that has a total debt of Rs25,000 and undergoes a...
A couple of years ago, there were riots in some Muslim neighbourhoods of...
If I had to choose between a corrupt leader and an incompetent one, I’d...
It was the best of deals, it was the worst of deals, it was the spring of...
Last week was the Pakistani Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam’s 93rd birth...
