Tag: #Pakistan Economy
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Doomsday Coming: Aviation Industry Needs a Messiah
The article is written by Imran Aslam Khan, an Aviation Professional and Businessman. The aviation industry in Pakistan is in a state of severe decline—a crisis extensively documented by AOOA, Pakistan, which has authored several papers on the sector’s potential to alleviate the country’s economic woes. The white paper published by AOOA Pakistan in 2024…
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PM Seeks Norwegian Investment in Pakistan’s Oil, Gas Sector
KEY DEVELOPMENTS: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif invited Norwegian companies to explore investment opportunities in Pakistan’s oil and gas sector. Pakistan and Norway discussed expanding bilateral trade and cooperation in education, skilled labour, climate resilience and technology. Both sides discussed regional and global developments, while Norway reaffirmed its interest in strengthening ties with Pakistan. ISLAMABAD (Radio…
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How History May Remember Nawaz Sharif
The article is written by Imran Aslam Khan, an Aviation Professional and Businessman. Supporters will remember Nawaz Sharif as a three-time Prime Minister who championed motorway construction, energy projects and infrastructure development. His critics, however, argue that his political legacy is defined more by expediency than by institution-building. From this critical perspective, Sharif emerged from…
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Global LPG Prices Have Fallen—Why Are Consumers Still Paying More?
By Mian Adeel Ashraf. Pakistan appears to be operating under a peculiar economic principle. Whenever global crude oil or LPG prices rise, domestic prices increase almost immediately. Distributors and retailers justify these hikes by claiming that future imports will be more expensive, so even existing stock must be sold at higher prices. However, when global…
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Pakistan’s FY2025-26 Trade Deficit Rises 21.57% to $39.47 Billion as Exports Decline
Key Developments: Pakistan’s trade deficit widened 21.57% to $39.47 billion during FY2025-26. Exports declined nearly 6%, while imports rose almost 8%, widening the external trade gap. June recorded a sharp increase in imports alongside falling exports, resulting in a significantly larger monthly trade deficit. ISLAMABAD (Business Recorder) — July 3, 2026: Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit expanded…
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Pakistan’s Pension Time Bomb
By Fazeel Asif. Pakistan’s fiscal debates follow a familiar script. Tax collection is too low. The IMF programme is fragile. Debt is rising. Exports are weak. These problems are real. But one of the most consequential threats to the country’s financial future sits largely unexamined: the pension bill. It is growing faster than the economy.…
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Without Industrialisation, Pakistan’s Youth Dividend Becomes a Youth Disaster.
By Fazeel Asif. Pakistan’s industrial decline did not happen by accident. It was a choice, made incrementally over decades, and the country is still paying for it. The most consequential moment came in 1972. When Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto launched his nationalisation programme, the stated objectives were reasonable enough. The country had come through…
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This Budget Manages Pakistan. It Does Not Move Pakistan Forward
By Fazeel Asif. Let’s be clear: the Economic Survey is not a lie. But it is not the truth most Pakistanis live. The numbers are methodologically defensible. The poverty line is official. The unemployment rate follows global definitions. The growth figures come through established statistical processes. None of that is invented. But an economy can…
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Pakistan’s Last Bet: The Demographic Window Is Closing
By Fazeel Asif. Pakistan’s working-age population grows by roughly 4 million people every year. The formal economy creates, in a good year, fewer than a million jobs. Half the country’s adults never enter the labour force at all. Barely a quarter of its women do. Twenty million children, the next decade’s labour bulge, are not…
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Stop Closing the Markets. Fix the Grid.
By Fazeel Asif. Pakistan has 46,605 MW of installed power generation capacity. Peak demand rarely touches 30,000 MW. Consumers are paying roughly Rs 2.5 to 2.8 trillion a year for plants that sit idle. And the solution that policymakers keep returning to, every few months, is to shut Lahore’s clothing markets at 8pm. Facing high…