2024-11-20-01-26

Unmet expectations or what?

EDITORIAL: The PPP and the PML-N have been in a partnership, generally viewed as a coalition of convenience, for ... Published 20 Nov, 2024 06:45am

2024-11-19-02-27

The Finance Minister’s defence

EDITORIAL: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb during his press briefing on Sunday appreciated the efforts towards... Published 19 Nov, 2024 06:53am

2024-11-19-02-27

Polio in Pakistan: 49 and counting

EDITORIAL: With the total number of reported polio cases this year jumping to 49, Pakistan now holds the dubious... Published 19 Nov, 2024 06:55am

2024-11-18-12-30

Govt approach to IPPs comes perilously close to coercion

EDITORIAL: Negotiations with Independent Power Producers (IPPs) are well under way in the second phase, following... Published 18 Nov, 2024 02:54am

2024-11-18-12-30

‘Masterclass in climate destruction’

EDITORIAL: We’ve long since come to the point where you don’t really need high profile glitzy events like COP29... Published 18 Nov, 2024 02:54am

2024-11-17-01-16

Surcharge on fossil fuels

EDITORIAL: It’s been learnt that one of the key measures under consideration to increase the tax-to-GDP ratio, as... Updated 17 Nov, 2024 06:07am

2024-11-17-01-16

Western media’s unprofessionalism

EDITORIAL: While politicians in Western countries with their undisguised bias in favour of Israel tend to paint... Updated 17 Nov, 2024 06:08am

2024-11-16-01-26

Legal action against Discos?

EDITORIAL: How on earth is Nepra (National Electric Power Regulatory Authority), a public sector entity, going to... Updated 16 Nov, 2024 08:17am

2024-11-16-01-26

Confronting climate change at Baku

EDITORIAL: At the ongoing 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in... Published 16 Nov, 2024 06:04am

2024-11-15-01-50

Investment versus deposit

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s Advance to Deposit Ratio (ADR), defined as comparing banks total loans to total deposits... Published 15 Nov, 2024 06:20am

2024-11-15-01-50

Battling smog

EDITORIAL: As record levels of air pollution blanket urban centres in Punjab with AQI readings much higher than the... Published 15 Nov, 2024 06:20am

2024-11-14-12-52

An initial audit by IMF?

EDITORIAL: Confirmed reports suggest that the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission met Finance... Updated 14 Nov, 2024 07:08am

2024-11-14-12-52

Divorced from reality

EDITORIAL: Once again Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has made a politically correct statement that did not turn out ... Updated 14 Nov, 2024 07:10am

2024-11-13-01-20

IMF mission in town

EDITORIAL: The schedule of reviews shared in the staff-level agreement report uploaded on the International Monetary... Published 13 Nov, 2024 07:07am

2024-11-13-01-20

Disturbing revelations

EDITORIAL: Of all the things Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb mentioned at the Islamabad literature festival the... Published 13 Nov, 2024 07:00am

2024-11-12-01-05

The right candidate for the right job

EDITORIAL: Remittances hit a four-month-high, as per State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) website, of 3.05 billion dollars... Published 12 Nov, 2024 07:03am

2024-11-12-01-05

Delayed realisation?

EDITORIAL: It is interesting, and instructive, that the Saudi army chief flew to Tehran on Sunday “for talks with... Published 12 Nov, 2024 07:06am

2024-11-11-01-41

IPPs: even-handed govt approach?

EDITORIAL: During a briefing to the Senate Standing Committee on Power, the co-chair of the Energy Task Force stated... Updated 11 Nov, 2024 07:13am

2024-11-11-01-41

‘Systematic’ cleansing

EDITORIAL: First things first, Qatar has told Hamas and Israel it will stall its efforts to mediate a Gaza ceasefire... Updated 11 Nov, 2024 07:14am

2024-11-10-12-44

Nosediving tax-to-GDP ratio

EDITORIAL: It’s a bit rich of the FBR (Federal Board of Revenue) to claim an improvement in the country’s tax-to-GDP... Published 10 Nov, 2024 02:51am

2024-11-10-12-44

A belated ‘Bijli Sahulat’ package

EDITORIAL: Finally, the prime minister has announced a power relief plan, ‘Bijli Sahulat’ package (a euphemism... Published 10 Nov, 2024 02:51am

2024-11-09-01-07

Economy on the mend

EDITORIAL: Minister of Finance Muhammad Aurangzeb while addressing the eighth edition of the “Future Summit”... Updated 09 Nov, 2024 08:19am

2024-11-09-01-07

Captive power phase-out: the show must go on

EDITORIAL: Only a few weeks into the latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, the Prime Minister has been... Updated 09 Nov, 2024 08:21am

2024-11-08-01-33

Tajir Dost Scheme has trouble making dost

EDITORIAL: A Business Recorder exclusive report has revealed that the traders have completely prevailed in their... Published 08 Nov, 2024 06:41am

2024-11-08-01-33

Trump tariffs and trade wars

EDITORIAL: Donald Trump’s return to the White House could not have come at a worse time for the Eurozone, just ... Updated 08 Nov, 2024 08:32am

2024-11-07-01-29

PIA sell-off fiasco

EDITORIAL: Halloween, thirty-first October, a day celebrated for horror and associated with the macabre, cast its... Updated 07 Nov, 2024 06:42am

2024-11-07-01-29

Facilitating FDI inflows

EDITORIAL: Shehbaz Sharif made a very valid point the other day about promotion of FDI (Foreign Direct Investment)... Published 07 Nov, 2024 06:44am

2024-11-06-02-43

Analysing monetary policy statement

EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), under the chairmanship of Jameel Ahmed, Governor State Bank of... Published 06 Nov, 2024 06:55am