Altered Saudi Perception
- 02-Feb-2023
Pakistan’s financial woes are the result of decades of profligacy that was never reined it even when matters were clearly getting out of hand. The ever-increasing gap between income and expenditure ensured that the country became excessively dependent upon foreign loans with the ultimate consequence that the foreign debt servicing consumed the bulk of country’s […]
Fifty Years Of 1973 Constitution
- 27-Jan-2023
The British are proud of their unwritten constitution and while ruling India they refrained from writing down a constitution though they kept on churning out rules and regulations that assisted them in governing the subcontinent by codified law. The last written document the British gave the subcontinent was the Act of 1935 that came into […]
Opinion: The need to approach IMF
- 02-Jan-2023
During the Second World War, the allied powers parleyed at Bretton Woods in America and came out with a detailed corpus for regulating monetary arrangements between states as the old monetary order was taken to have irretrievably broken down. In this context, IMF was created in line with Bretton Woods arrangements that devised rules for […]
Opinion: Shabbar Zaidi Spelling Doom
- 10-Dec-2022
It is widely acknowledged by friends and foe alike that Shabbar Zaidi’s stint as Chairman FBR ended in abject failure. His failure was not surprising as he possessed not an iota of financial expertise to manage an intricate revenue collecting enterprise such as FBR and he proved completely out of depth when confronted with the […]