January 29, 2016 Will State Bank of Pakistan cut discount rate? Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Ashraf Mahmood Wathra is scheduled to unveil Monetary Policy Decision at a press conference on Saturday. There are…
December 26, 2015 Pakistan must not allow deep sea fishing Local fishermen have always opposed operation of deep sea fishing trawlers in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). However, the unlawful activity goes own because…
December 23, 2015 Time to scrap Pakistan Steel Reportedly state owned enterprises (SoEs) swallow about half a trillion rupees annually. The state of affairs prevails because of: 1) rampant corruption, 2) inefficiencies,…
December 22, 2015 Time to shut down inefficient spinning mills Some of the readers may recall in one of my recent posts I wrote ‘sugar mills deserve no sympathies’. This was written in response…
December 8, 2015 Subsidy to sugar mills is waste of tax payers’ money At a recent meeting of Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet Chaired by Finance Minister, Senator Ishaq Dar payment of Rs7 billion subsidy…
December 2, 2015 Fixing sugarcane support price a thorny affair It may not be wrong to say that Pakistan suffers from ‘sugar politics’ and the worst sufferers are consumers who have to pay the…
November 30, 2015 Pakistan: Power sector needs radical structural reforms Recently released generation numbers for October’15 when combined with 3MFY16 numbers confirm two major trends impacting the power space. Firstly, generation for the period…
November 19, 2015 Pakistan mobilizes PKR 46,684 million through PIB auction An auction of Pakistan invest Bonds of different tenors was held on 18th November 2015. The highest bids and acceptance was for 3-year bonds…
November 16, 2015 Sugar industry deserves no sympathies An advertisement has been published in local newspapers by Pakistan Sugar Mills Association (PSMA). It is aimed at extorting taxpayers’ money rather than making…
October 28, 2015 PMEX signs collaboration agreement with DGCX Pakistan Mercantile Exchange Limited (PMEX), the country’s only multi-commodity exchange, and Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX), UAE’s leading derivatives bourse, today announced that…