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Economic cost of disruptions

By saeed-ahmed-rid Published in Dawn on December 16, 2024 THE finance minister’s recent statement, attributing daily financial losses of Rs190 billion to the political protests sparked by PTI, offers an important but incomplete picture of Pakistan’s ongoing economic and political turmoil. While it’s valuable to quantify the financial impact of these disruptions, the minister has conveniently ignored[…]

Economic plan?

Published in Dawn on December 15, 2024 FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s comment at an Islamic finance conference that, having effectively addressed its economic woes, the country is on the path to stability and growth, is overly optimistic, if not boastful. It is true that the country no longer faces the economic emergency of a year ago, when[…]