The region where Pakistan is located is undergoing a transformative phase that is witnessing changes in perceptions, policies, and ground realities. The region, which includes the broader Middle East as well as South West Asia, is seeing 3 fundamental far-reaching new realities.
Even the man in the street here is well versed in the “Minus One Formula” as the phrase is a regular feature of our political discourse — a local infection, as it were.
Permanent Record comes at a time when news of Snowden’s prosecution is rife with speculation. It is a crude source of information that attempts to unveil the atrocities advocated through artificially maneuvered intelligence.
Due to the persistent distrust between the Kabul government and Afghan Taliban, former Advisor to then Prime Minister Sartaj Aziz advised the Afghan side to dissolve precondition to talks, in a bid to create a conducive environment. As a result, the talks never took off.
Prime Minister and others never bothered to get alternative views. The nation has paid a heavy price for these misconstrued policies. People who landed from the helicopter had little or no idea about the statistics of Pakistan. They have never studied Pakistan’s economy. They brought the knowledge of the western economies and their policies and brutally implemented the same in developing countries like Pakistan.
Haaris Mahmood Chaudhry is a financial professional currently serving as the Chief Executive Officer at the Universal Services Fund Company…
To ascertain reasons for experiencing imbalances on the economic front, whenever the economy started achieving higher growth it remained unsustainable mainly because it never fueled with raising the required investment and savings.
A constitutional battle fast degenerating into a fierce war of words between two financial institutions of the country on whether the Auditor General Pakistan’s (AGP), responsible for the audit of the federal government, can be audited itself by the former as sought by the Finance Division through a move enjoying the backing of the President and the federal government.