by Shahid Ali | Jul 7, 2025 | Economics and Trade
State‑owned enterprises (SOEs) have long formed a backbone of Pakistan’s public sector, delivering essential services—power, transport, infrastructure, logistics. But once the cornerstone to Pakistan’s development, the SOEs’ fate has changed over the decades....
by Shahid Ali | Jul 7, 2025 | Economics and Trade
Remittances—money sent back home by citizens working abroad—serve as a crucial source of foreign exchange, income, and stability for many developing nations. In Pakistan, these inflows have evolved into a lifeline, underpinning macroeconomic resilience and supporting...
by Shahid Ali | Jul 4, 2025 | Economics and Trade
For those who grew up in the 2010s, the news of a bomb blast in a major urban centre of Pakistan had become a routine event in their childhood. Terrorists roamed free, left, right and centre, and their financing structures were well intact. And while Pakistan got rid...
by Shahid Ali | Jul 4, 2025 | Terrorism
While we often hear the words Hawala and Hundi in everyday news, we seldom pay heed to what these systems are and how dangerous they are for not just the economy but the entire country. Hawala and hundi are ancient informal value transfer systems that operate outside...
by Shahid Ali | Jul 4, 2025 | Economics and Trade
Infrastructural development is the lifeline of any growing economy. Similarly, Pakistan, like many developing countries, cannot rely solely on public finances to meet its infrastructure and social service needs. Limited fiscal capacity—strained by recurring circular...
