A budget focused on energy, along with a short-term survival strategy, would have earned a better deal from the IMF.

What we have, thanks to Dar’s irrational exuberance, is an IMF drone.

Small owners are selling more land than they are buying and large owners are buying more land than they are selling.

The target of achieving a growth rate of 7% in the gross provincial product in three years is an unrealisable dream.

Finance minister has presented a pro-market budget, but its macroeconomic framework will be a hard sell for the IFIs.

While law and order is a provincial responsibility, the nature of the prevailing violence requires a national policy.

3 issues deserve the government's attention in first 100 days: load-shedding, load-shedding, net outflow of capital.

It was in the poorest districts that some of the highest turnouts were in evidence.

The economy’s growth remains at a fairly healthy level of 3.6 per cent.

With most subjects, bulk of resources devolved to provinces, concept of centralised services has become meaningless.