This report looks at the reasons for why Pakistan is stuck with low per-capita GDP growth over the past two decades, and explore ways and means to put the country on a path of higher and sustained economic growth. By Staff Reporter.
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2 army officers martyred in Kohlu IED blast
The attack targeted the lead vehicle of an army team engaged in a sanitisation operation of the area to flush out terrorists. By Naveed Naqvi.
Taxila Museum. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Japan to fund PKR 100 million Taxila Museum revamp
The grant will go to enhancing of the antiquities’ conservation and exhibition capacity of Taxila Museum. By Naveed Naqvi.
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko: https://www.pexels.com/photo/bald-woman-lying-on-hospital-bed-6010929/
Islamabad gets free cancer hospital
First planned under former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2016, the dream of a cutting-edge cancer hospital providing free treatment to the poor in Islamabad is set to come true. By Ahmer Kureishi.
Will IMF heed HRW’s slap on the wrist?
The international rights group has made an impeccable case for why Pakistan needs more flexibility and time to bounce back economically. The question, however is, will the lender of the last resort pay heed? By Ahmer Kureishi.
Pakistan’s energy minister Dr Musadik Malik is seen addressing the media in this undated photo courtesy of APP.
Global north’s development came at a cost to the planet
They clocked faster economic growth in the past and achieved a higher level of development, but their development cost the planet dearly in terms of pollution and environmental degradation. By Naveed Naqvi.
PTI and Islamabad’s season of evictions
They are not lawmakers anymore, so why are they still occupying parliamentary lodges? And so, we have a drive of evictions underway at the federal capital. By Naveed Naqvi.
The first day of the eighth session of the Pakistan-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation began in Islamabad on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Photo courtesy of APP.
Top Russia panel discusses cheap oil, gas for Pakistan
The Russian delegation is in Pakistan for a meeting of the high-powered Pakistan-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. By Naveed Naqvi.
4 border guards killed in terror attack from Iran
Terrorists used Iranian soil to ambush a Pakistani border patrol in the Panjgur district of the southern Balochistan province which shares a long border with the western neighbour. By Naveed Naqvi.
Chairman Noor Alam Khan, MNA, presiding over a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the National Assembly by at Parliament House July 19, 2022. Photo courtesy National Assembly Secretariat.
PAC orders probe into registration of fake case against Rana Sanaullah
Khan’s top aide and cabinet minister Shehryar Afridi had claimed the ANF had a watertight case against Rana, but Force officers later said he was blameless, leading to his acquittal. By Staff Reporter.