IT took five years of negotiations to end the Vietnam War. The Paris Accords were signed in January 1973 by a beleaguered presidential administration after five years of negotiations that had begun in...
AN interesting thing is happening in the oil markets that has not received enough media attention. Given the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the severe supply-side crisis that has hit gl...
I HAVE waited many years, decades, to write these words and the time has finally come. Today, I feel proud to be a Pakistani. Today, my country stands out among the comity of nations as a peacemaker o...
ANYBODY who has experience in running a business will tell you about a type of person you meet who is adept at leading others without sharing any of the material, tangible benefits of the journey. In ...
THE State Bank left the interest rate unchanged this week, surprising some observers, but it had good reason to do so. In the narrative it built to support its decision, the State Bank effectively arg...
THE Gul Plaza tragedy in Karachi last weekend provided the perfect metaphor and visual example of a lot of what weighs down Pakistan’s economy. This was not the first such fire. Journalist Mahim Mah...
AROUND the same time last year, I wrote the economy has reached what I called “peak stability”. This was a stage where all the measures taken to stabilise the economy had delivered their results, ...
THE same question keeps coming up: why don’t you write about the solutions? Let me give two answers here. The first answer is that, in all honesty, the kind with hand on heart, nobody is really inte...
THIS was the year of stabilisation, when Pakistan’s economy was pulled out from one of the worst bouts of instability it had ever seen; 2025 was also the year when the li...
SHE was the shortest giant I ever met. Yet she commanded stature and could dominate a room full of people simply by being in it. It was the quiet authority she exuded that was her signature, the kind ...