Thanks to the IMF, regressive attempt to provide relief to every individual paying income tax has been reversed

Pakistan does not seem to have a plan to ensure energy security, just a collection of contentious projects

It is a make or break with the IMF, the PTI is not hiding its glee for being spared

Economic policy is a matter of political choice and democracy is the means to exercise that choice

Democracies stand on four pillars — legislature, executive, judiciary and media

The government of PM Shehbaz Sharif misread the situation by not correcting the deviation from the programme quickly

In the fifth week of crisis, the heightening of duties on luxuries and inessential items is too little, too late

In our situation, reducing federal transfers to provinces is unlikely to have the so-called ‘flypaper effect’

Iqbal believed that a promise to take Muslims of India out of poverty was only way to mobilise them for independence

Persistently rising fiscal and current account deficits are symptoms of a deep-going malaise