Dr Pervez Tahir
The writer is a political economist with a PhD from Cambridge. He served as the Chief Economist at the Planning Commission of the Government of Pakistan. He is presently a columnist at Express Tribune.
Opinion
To Fix The Economy, Pakistan Must Learn To Save And Invest
This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. The Achilles heel of Pakistan’s economy is the failure to institute stable and sustained economic growth. There is a mad rush to growth for a...
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News
PTI Leader Fawad Chaudhry...
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry was presented before Cantt Court in Lahore after being arrested by the...
News
Police Raze Minarets Of...
In yet another instance of persecution against the marginalised community, police in Gujrat razed the minarets of an Ahmadi...
News
American Senators Extending Support...
The majority of the US senators who have extended support to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan amid the...
Features
Pro-Palestine DNC Delegate Assaulted...
A pro-Palestine elected member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from Florida, Nadia Ahmad, was hit in the head...
News
Ignoring ‘Blasphemy’ Hate Speech...
The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), that took no action against the controversial Ramzan transmission on BOL TV...
News
Islamabad Police Claim To...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police on Thursday said two suspects in the F-9 Park rape incident were killed in an...
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Human Rights
Pakistan’s Top Court Upholds Death Sentence in Murder of Woman Killed For Obtaining Divorce
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s highest court on Saturday rejected an appeal by a man convicted...
Human Rights
Pakistan’s Civic Freedoms Deteriorate Amid Crackdown on Dissent: Report
ISLAMABAD - Civic freedoms in Pakistan have deteriorated amid a widening crackdown on activists,...
Human Rights
Pakistan Police Arrest 17 at Islamabad Aurat March on Women’s Day
Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on...
Extremism watch
Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...