Stories from Dr Pervez Tahir
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Passing the budget in second attempt
Thanks to the IMF, regressive attempt to provide relief to every individual paying income tax has been reversed
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Let the sun electrify the economy
Pakistan does not seem to have a plan to ensure energy security, just a collection of contentious projects
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A budget no one wanted
It is a make or break with the IMF, the PTI is not hiding its glee for being spared
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Tuesday economics
Economic policy is a matter of political choice and democracy is the means to exercise that choice
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A missing element in Maryam’s discourse
Democracies stand on four pillars — legislature, executive, judiciary and media
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Buying time or wasting it
The government of PM Shehbaz Sharif misread the situation by not correcting the deviation from the programme quickly
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Who engineers the political economy?
In the fifth week of crisis, the heightening of duties on luxuries and inessential items is too little, too late
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Debt: passing the buck to provinces
In our situation, reducing federal transfers to provinces is unlikely to have the so-called ‘flypaper effect’
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The forgotten Iqbal
Iqbal believed that a promise to take Muslims of India out of poverty was only way to mobilise them for independence
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Education, energy and economy
Persistently rising fiscal and current account deficits are symptoms of a deep-going malaise