K-shaped recovery deepens divide
By Usman Hanif Published in The Express Tribune on January 07, 2026 KARACHI: Pakistan’s much-discussed economic stabilisation is masking a widening fault line: while wealthier […]
Household Integrated Economic Survey shows 57pc surge in internet users across Pakistan as access reaches 70pc of homes
Published in Dawn on January 01, 2026 Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) 2024–25 on Thursday revealed the surge of up to 57 per cent in[…]
The ‘net economy’
By SYED HARIS AHMED Published in The Express Tribune on December 29, 2025 KARACHI: Pakistan’s economic discourse has long been dominated by familiar concerns: fiscal[…]
Pakistan’s bazaar economy runs the country while staying off the books
By AHMAD MUKHTAR Published in The Express Tribune on December 29, 2025 ISLAMABAD: Walk through any Pakistani bazaar at dusk, and you’ll see the country’s[…]
A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and Its Applications with Tariq Khan
As part of its Seminar Series, the Graduate Institute of Development Studies hosted a talk on artificial intelligence (AI) by technologist Tariq Khan on December[…]
PM for using modern tech to upgrade immigration system
Published in Dawn on December 21, 2025 LAHORE: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday stressed the need to fully utilise modern technology to upgrade the[…]
Macroeconomic vulnerabilities persist: IMF
Published in Dawn on December 20, 2025 ISLAMABAD: The IMF’s Resident Chief in Pakistan, Mahir Binic, on Friday cautioned that the country’s macroeconomic vulnerabilities persist,[…]
In decline
By S. Akbar Zaidi Published in Dawn on December 19, 2025 PAKISTAN is in decline — in serious, considerable and sharp decline — as manifested[…]
Seminar by Syed Faizan Abbas Naqvi, widely known as “Lahore ka Khojji,” on “A Fifteen Year Journey Exploring Lahore’s Heritage,” held as part of Pakistan’s Economic History Society.
On 10th December 2025, the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), Lahore School of Economics, organized a seminar titled “A Fifteen-Year Journey Exploring Lahore’s Heritage”[…]








