Published in Dawn on August 16, 2023 PAKISTAN’S moribund power sector has become the Achilles heel of its faltering economy. The losses suffered by a frail economy in the last two decades due to power sector failures are perhaps surpassed only by the damages inflicted by terrorism. The accumulation of massive circular debt — the cash shortfall […]
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AugBy Dr Nasra M Shah Published in Business Recorder on August 15, 2023 On 5th August, the Council of Common Interests unanimously approved the results of the 7th Population Census of Pakistan, and immediately received a note of thanks from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the architect of the Census. In May 2023, Pakistan was declared[…]
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AugBy Maleeha Lodhi Published in Dawn on August 14, 2023 PAKISTAN celebrates the 76th anniversary of its independence today in an environment of political uncertainty and economic fragility. It confronts multiple, interconnected challenges which have, over the decades, been feeding off and reinforcing each other in an unbroken cycle. They include the structural crisis of the economy,[…]
