Her basic message is that Pakistan “can and should do much better”, given its many assets

The time has come to declare an education emergency, especially for primary and secondary education

It is surprising that World Bank's report shows no awareness of the devastating floods which hit Pakistan in September

It will be a real challenge for the beleaguered government to stabilise the economy once again.

Government has increasingly shown the tendency to adopt ‘homegrown’ reforms, following stabilisation of the economy.

Overall, the federal PSDP of 2014-15 reveals a hurried and ad hoc inclusion of a number of large, new projects.

The government has continued to fuel demand-pull inflation by printing of large amounts of money.

The principal performance criterion was NIR. In this critical sense, the programme has failed to perform up till now.

Persistently large deficits financed in major part by printing of money will seriously exacerbate inflation.

If the slowdown persists it is likely we may see little or no growth in 2010-11.