Articles by Khurram Husain
THE State Bank left the interest rate unchanged this week, surprising some observers, but it had good reason to do so. In the narrative it built to support its decision, the State Bank effectively arg...
THE Gul Plaza tragedy in Karachi last weekend provided the perfect metaphor and visual example of a lot of what weighs down Pakistan’s economy. This was not the first such fire. Journalist Mahim Mah...
AROUND the same time last year, I wrote the economy has reached what I called “peak stability”. This was a stage where all the measures taken to stabilise the economy had delivered their results, ...
THE same question keeps coming up: why don’t you write about the solutions? Let me give two answers here.
The first answer is that, in all honesty, the kind with hand on heart, nobody is really inte...
THIS was the year of stabilisation, when Pakistan’s economy was pulled out from one of the worst bouts of instability it had ever seen; 2025 was also the year when the li...
SHE was the shortest giant I ever met. Yet she commanded stature and could dominate a room full of people simply by being in it. It was the quiet authority she exuded that was her signature, the kind ...
THE deal under which Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has just been privatised is good news and imparts much-needed momentum onto the structural reform efforts of the government, that were largel...
A BRIEF but telling moment passed quickly without comment in the press conference by the DG ISPR on Dec 5. It came in response to a question in which he was asked a vague and rambling question about h...
THERE is a political battle underway in Pakistan and it is being fought on multiple fronts, with multiple strategies involving multiple players. At stake is the very future of politics in this country...
