Articles by Khurram Husain
EVERY decade in Pakistan’s history has seen a moment when a robust defence of democracy as the best form of government for a country like ours is needed. The never-ending struggle for supremacy betw...
ONE good thing that has come out of this whole conversation about building the federation on new foundations is that it has exposed the most opportunistic elements among us. Those who crave the opport...
IT seems the finance minister’s meeting with the US treasury secretary last week has yielded some understandings that are already beginning to play themselves out.
Consider the decisions made at the...
HERE we go again. Having succeeded in stabilising the economy and failed at reforming it, the government is not preparing to transition to high growth the old fashioned way: through borrowed dollars p...
THERE are many reasons to be bullish about Pakistan these days, not least the hard-fought stability in the external sector following a few years of near-catastrophic depletion of reserves. But there a...
THE powers of the tax machinery are growing more strident but the recovery of actual revenue is getting harder and harder. The new production monitoring system rolled out by the FBR in the last fiscal...
A RATHER damning indictment of the seventh NFC Award has just been published by the World Bank in a study titled Strengthening Fiscal Federalism in Pakistan. The study plugs a crucial gap in our under...
TECHNOLOGY has a way of solving problems that policy struggled with. When telecommunications deregulation failed to connect rural Pakistan, mobile phones arrived and did the job. When grid electrifica...
NOW that the war is winding down, an important question needs to be asked. Will the rulers of Iran remember with gratitude the role Pakistan played in helping secure a dignified ending for them?
Iran ...
If ever voice mattered, it was now. The budget unveiled today shows the government heard everything that was being said about it and has moved to rectify, albeit the moves are small.
Salaried people h...
