‘Reimagining Pakistan’ EDITORIAL: Ideas about rescuing the economy, especially about ending its dependence on donor bailouts, come a dime a... Published 20 Mar, 2023 06:12am
Opinion Things are still difficult for the Sharifs Miftah Ismail of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been speaking his mind in a blunt way ever since he was... Published 20 Mar, 2023 06:12am
Pakistan Pakistan's ex finance chief Miftah warns against any kind of debt restructuring Difficult task to get China and the West to sit on one table for such an endeavour, he says Updated 16 Mar, 2023 09:46am
Opinion Something’s gotta give A small group of alienated members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have... Published 14 Mar, 2023 03:18am
Business & Finance Country can avoid IMF only through higher exports, tax collections: Miftah KARACHI: Former Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday said that in order to avoid International Monetary... Updated 13 Mar, 2023 09:12am
Business & Finance Ongoing crisis result of ‘last 75 years’ mistakes’, says Miftah KARACHI: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail has said Pakistan has reached to this state owing to the mistakes of... Published 05 Mar, 2023 03:36am
Pakistan Pakistan should prioritise population planning, female education: Miftah Ismail Former finance minister says Bangladesh, Egypt and Tunisia succeeded in implementing population planning Updated 04 Mar, 2023 06:55pm
Pakistan Accountability court revokes non-bailable arrest warrant for Shahid Khaqan in LNG case Warrant was issued over failure of PML-N leader to appear before the court Updated 21 Feb, 2023 10:10pm
Opinion PARTLY FACETIOUS: Dar doesn’t like qualified economists “Ishaq Dar says that he has to fix the economy that was mishandled by the inexperienced Khan administration.”... Published 17 Feb, 2023 06:00am
Opinion After the IMF tranche On December 16, 2021 at a Hamdard University seminar where Dr Miftah Ismail was another speaker, I had said that... Updated 14 Feb, 2023 01:05pm
Opinion Pakistan: grave economic distress On 26 January 2023 inanely shackling the dollar to what was nothing but wishful thinking ended and the interbank ... Published 13 Feb, 2023 05:57am
Pakistan Punjab, KP assemblies: Asad hopes election dates will be announced by weekend ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secretary general Asad Umar on Tuesday showed optimism that election dates... Published 08 Feb, 2023 06:10am
Editorials Symptoms of fissures EDITORIAL: Even though there is the question of ‘ifs and buts’ engulfing the possibility of general election on... Published 04 Feb, 2023 06:08am
Markets Deal or default: Pakistan’s economy set for an endgame Distressed by debt, many analysts expect 'reprofiling' rather than mass write-off of payments Published 01 Feb, 2023 01:13pm
Business & Finance Economic mess: embittered Miftah offers ‘solution’ KARACHI: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail Friday said that instead of depreciating the value of the dollar... Published 28 Jan, 2023 06:20am
Pakistan Miftah takes a dig at Dar, again KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Miftah Ismail on Thursday took a dig at Finance Minister Ishaq... Published 27 Jan, 2023 06:15am
Pakistan Keeping dollar in narrow range was insanity, says Dr Miftah Ismail at IBA event Former finance minister says black market cannot be stopped by administrative measures Updated 27 Jan, 2023 10:58am
Pakistan Ishaq Dar has inflicted huge financial dent to Pakistan: Miftah Ismail Former finance minister says Dar thought he could run the economy without IMF programme Updated 26 Jan, 2023 06:48pm
Opinion The Saudi snub, and after… The prime minister’s decision to do whatever was needed to complete the 9th review of the stalled IMF programme ... Updated 26 Jan, 2023 06:19am
Editorials ‘I feel humiliated…’ EDITORIAL: Constitution doesn’t prescribe medicine for every ill that besets today’s Pakistan, but even by... Published 26 Jan, 2023 05:58am
Opinion PARTLY FACETIOUS: Refusing to play ball “The Khan says he may return to the national assembly so that RR and Shehbaz Sharif do not appoint a caretaker... Published 18 Jan, 2023 06:22am
Editorials Know thy economy EDITORIAL: The government of Pakistan’s comparative data revealed under the title “Know Your Economy” in the... Published 16 Jan, 2023 06:38am
Print Miftah calls for economic ‘overhaul’ Lamenting the political situation in Punjab, the PML-N stalwart said we should focus on the revival of the country’s economy rather than surfing energies on the ‘political games’ Updated 16 Jan, 2023 09:41am
Opinion Pakistan: a state and its citizens in state of denial – I On December 16, 2021 at a seminar at Hamdard University where Dr Miftah Ismail, who later became country’s finance... Published 04 Jan, 2023 06:02am
Opinion PARTLY FACETIOUS: Buddha said three things cannot be hidden “Talking of Achilles’ heel…” “Achilles as in a great warrior of the Trojan war in Greek mythology?”... Published 31 Dec, 2022 06:32am
Markets Pakistan's Rupee sees its worst year since 2008 meltdown PKR lost 22% during 2022, depreciating from 176.51 to 226.43 against the US dollar in the inter-bank market Updated 01 Jan, 2023 01:19pm
Opinion PARTLY FACETIOUS: Caretaker setup may be in place? “The difference between an individual decision maker and an institution is that the former focuses only on Plan A... Published 30 Dec, 2022 05:50am
Editorials Foot-dragging on the pending IMF review EDITORIAL: The market is unambiguously sending signals to the government to take appropriate measures to deal with... Published 29 Dec, 2022 05:59am
Pakistan Nasir Rana appointed AC judge ISLAMABAD: The government has appointed District and Sessions Judge Nasir Javed Rana as the new judge of the... Published 20 Dec, 2022 05:58am
Opinion ‘Charter of economy’: need of the hour? There is a growing urge from the ruling party to bring a ‘charter of economy’ – Dar in particular is pushing... Published 19 Dec, 2022 06:00am