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Jun

A dangerous bargain

By Khurram Husain Published in DAWN on June 17, 2021 IN a couple of television appearances, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin quietly dropped a bombshell of an announcement and hurriedly moved. He said the IMF has postponed the ongoing sixth review of the facility Pakistan just restarted in April and decided to let the government first demonstrate the […]

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Jun

Biden picks Pakistan-origin Big Tech critic as top federal regulator

Published in DAWN on June 16, 2021 US President Joe Biden on Tuesday installed an energetic critic of Big Tech as a top federal regulator at a time when the industry is under intense pressure from Congress, regulators and state attorneys general. The selection of Pakistan-origin legal scholar Lina Khan to head the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)[…]

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Feb

Beyond Covid-19

By Samar Quddus, Published in The News, February 16, 2021 The 21st century mainly gave us the unabated war on terror, civil conflict, political disruption, climate change, and above all global epidemics that have now placed a chokehold on well-functioning economies of the world. In this regard, the last 15 months have proved to be the most[…]