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M Ziauddin

Opinion

Stop the war; ‘Mine’ the economy

Now that the last of the foreign occupying troops are seen leaving Afghanistan it is time to put an end to the...

Published 21 Jul, 2021 01:51am

Opinion

Socio-economic cost: Falling fertility rates in rich world

As we, in the developing countries like Pakistan, worry about perennial population explosion, the situation in the...

Published 14 Jul, 2021 03:59am

Opinion

It is the rich countries, stupid!

The sword of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is continuing to hang over the head of Pakistan, not because...

Published 07 Jul, 2021 04:28am

Opinion

A new kind of cold war in the offing?

The world is likely to witness a boom in physical infrastructure development activity as the Blue Dot Network (BDN),...

Published 30 Jun, 2021 03:54am

Opinion

An economic mishap in the making

Pakistan’s estimated population, according to the National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS), is 215.25...

Published 23 Jun, 2021 04:26am

Opinion

'New' Washington Consensus

The good news is the new budgetary proposals attempt to detach the national economy from the regressive...

Published 16 Jun, 2021 03:39am

Opinion

Beyond GDP

French economist Thomas Piketty in his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows that the rate of capital ...

Published 09 Jun, 2021 03:29am

Opinion

Exploiting comparative advantages

The federal budget for the year 2021-22 is being framed by Shaukat Tarin during whose earlier tenure as the federal...

Published 02 Jun, 2021 04:29am

Opinion

‘Unrealistic’ but not unbelievable

More than the opposition or bitter critics of the PTI-led coalition government, it is Prime Minister Imran Khan’s...

Published 26 May, 2021 03:45am

Opinion

Helping pandemic-hit developing countries

To help developing countries grappling with the Covid-19 crisis, official donors increased foreign aid to an ...

Published 19 May, 2021 06:00am

Opinion

Amazing e-Commerce opportunities

Amazon, the e-Commerce giant, has recently added Pakistan to its approved sellers list, making it the 102nd country...

Published 12 May, 2021 04:23am

Opinion

The pitfalls and the prospects

Pakistan’s exports to European Union countries may stay in a danger zone as the European parliament last Thursday...

Published 05 May, 2021 04:01am

Opinion

Unmasking the ‘Mafias’

Lately the so-called ‘Mafias’ are being increasingly blamed for almost all the ills that the national economy is...

Published 28 Apr, 2021 03:18am

Opinion

Desperate call for debt relief

Last week, Prime Minister Imran Khan once again urged the global community, particularly financial organisations, to...

Published 21 Apr, 2021 03:21am

Opinion

Actions should suit resources

We are back into the IMF’s 3-year $6 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement having received a $500...

Published 14 Apr, 2021 03:21am

Opinion

An Iran-Pakistan economic corridor?

There was this hope, however diffident, that Pakistan would take full advantage of India’s current willingness to...

Published 07 Apr, 2021 03:48am

Opinion

A geoeconomics-led Indo-Pak détente?

Unless we remove our economy from the bottle in which we had managed to thrust it as we tried to cope with the harsh...

Published 31 Mar, 2021 05:42am

Opinion

Prospects, pitfalls of high tech

As China becomes a global data superpower, it is likely to control huge quantities of a resource that will be...

Published 24 Mar, 2021 05:10am

Opinion

And we kept missing the bus

There was a time during the 1990s when we used to talk a lot about how we wish we could emulate the Asian Tigers....

Published 17 Mar, 2021 04:45am

Opinion

At the threshold of a new world

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the process of reorganizing the world. The US and China are already in the midst...

Published 10 Mar, 2021 04:59am

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Investments / Jul 26 786 Investments Limited(786)	10.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL- Abbas / Jul 26 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	345.17 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 26 Agro Allianz limited(AAL)	11.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 26 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 26 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 26 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	72.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 26 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	772.53 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 26 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Jul 26 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	179.92 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Adam Sugar / Jul 26 Adam Sugar Mills Limited(ADAMS)	36.01 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Investments / Jul 26 786 Investments Limited(786)	10.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL- Abbas / Jul 26 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	345.17 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 26 Agro Allianz limited(AAL)	11.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 26 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 26 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 26 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	72.00 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 26 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	772.53 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 26 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Attock Cement / Jul 26 Attock Cement Pakistan Limited(ACPL)	179.92 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Adam Sugar / Jul 26 Adam Sugar Mills Limited(ADAMS)	36.01 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume

Markets →

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 24	161.50
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 24	161.40
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 24	110.55
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 24	0.92
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 24	1.37
Euro to USD / Jul 24	1.18
UK LIBOR % / Jul 24	0.08

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 24	4411.79
India Sensex / Jul 24	52975.80
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 24	27548.00
Nasdaq / Jul 24	14836.99
Hang Seng / Jul 24	27321.98
FTSE 100 / Jul 24	7027.58
Dow Jones / Jul 24	35061.55
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 24	15669.29
France CAC40 / Jul 24	6568.32

Item	Value
Crude Oil / Jul 24	72.07
Karachi Cotton Assoc. / Jul 24	12880.00
Gold 10 Grams / Jul 24	93620.00
Gold Spot / Jul 24	1805.90
Cotton / Jul 24	89.66

M Ziauddin

Stop the war; ‘Mine’ the economy

Socio-economic cost: Falling fertility rates in rich world

It is the rich countries, stupid!

A new kind of cold war in the offing?

An economic mishap in the making

'New' Washington Consensus

Beyond GDP

Exploiting comparative advantages

‘Unrealistic’ but not unbelievable

Helping pandemic-hit developing countries

Amazing e-Commerce opportunities

The pitfalls and the prospects

Unmasking the ‘Mafias’

Desperate call for debt relief

Actions should suit resources

An Iran-Pakistan economic corridor?

A geoeconomics-led Indo-Pak détente?

Prospects, pitfalls of high tech

And we kept missing the bus

At the threshold of a new world

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