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With all its tragedies, unprecedented complexities and uncertainties, the coronavirus pandemic should focus minds on the inadequacies in our healthcare and social security systems that need rectification at the earliest. Consider.

Covid-19 rolls on like Hitler's blitzkrieg. Human society is advanced enough to cope with some consequences. But it does not have the tools to cope with three occurrences:

Firefighting. Trapped. Blind Alley. Emotionally exhausted. Mentally fatigued. Search overload. Day-to-day. These are some of the feelings expressed by people who are going through life in the time of Covid-19. With a world shut down as never before this s

With the inquiry report on sugar price hike has landed the next challenge for PM Imran Khan; taking action against those benefitting from the sugar exports and price hike saga. Imran Khan while taking credit of making the investigation report public as it

The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) met for the third time in less than one month on 16 April 2020 and reduced the rate to 9 percent - from 13.25 percent effective 20 July to 16 March, 12 .5 percent from 17 March to 23 March and 11 percent effective 24 Ma

I remember the succinct and focused advice Ali sule gave me in one of my very first presentations to Habib family about the possible vision and direction of Habib University. After I finished laying the case for creating a new university in Karachi, Ali h

The report on Power Sector by M. Ali and team touched the IPPs where it hurts the most. The reaction of Independent Power Producer Association (IPPA) and a letter by the sitting Petroleum Advisor to PM (who is a shareholder in an IPP and ex-chairman IPPA)

The Covid-19 has confronted the world with a new and emerging challenge whose complete scale and magnitude are yet to be properly understood and established. The Federal and provincial governments have taken a number of measures to further counter the spr

Terra Thomas, one of the millions of Americans who have lost their income due to the coronavirus pandemic, was stuck between a rock and a hard place - pay her rent or put food on the table?

"Do you believe in numerology?"

PM Imran Khan vowed in the midst of recent sugar, wheat and other commodities shortage and hoarding crisis that he would not spare the cartels and hoarders and take them to task.

As the country gets ravaged by the Virus Wars, with the situation getting worse day by day, let us start once again with a prayer that Allah SWT alleviates the hardship of our beloved nation soon.

One day Parvin was toiling to meet the fast-fashion demands of European capitals, the next she was among hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshi clothes workers made instantly jobless as the coronavirus pandemic struck.

"I am not sure which ministries are under lockdown."

According to various Press reports, all businesses in Pakistan, as elsewhere, badly hit by lockdown in the wake of Covid-19 epidemic, are demanding a comprehensive tax bailout claiming that loan facility announced by State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to pay sa

Covid-19 has badly exposed the lack of interdisciplinary approach of mainstream economics - the theoretical basis for widely practiced economic policy, both at the level of most countries and multilateral institutions - whereby, as a result, the economic

When Amer Awan's father died of coronavirus, mourners congregated with little thought of social distancing. But cultural practices alone do not explain why Britain's ethnic minorities have been hardest hit by the outbreak.

Would it be stating the obvious to say the fear of economic losses is hand-wrestling with the fear of losing lives? The see-saw of living and making a living is leaving us paralysed? As Ezra Klien quipped, it is hard to decide which is scarier: conversati

The World, as we knew it, has changed. The global pandemic of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) is a major paradigm shift in all spheres of human activity - from economic to political to societal. Regardless of whether this passes relatively quickly or linge

A furious, aggrieved President Donald Trump dismissed rumors Monday that he was going to fire his top medical advisor on the coronavirus pandemic but launched new fights with the Democrats and the media ahead of the high-stakes reopening of the shuttered

"Are you aware of the concept of a spare?"

"I am so very, very, very tired...."

The Covid-19 has proved to be a great leveler. The pandemic does not discriminate between the rich and the poor, mighty and the weak, left and right, between religious and ethnic divides, between the erudite and the ignorant and; it is totally blind to th

The government is focusing on wrong policy initiatives due to which the circular debt is ever increasing. In fact the recoveries of past years have been shown as increased collection when the regulator adjusted and allowed prior year adjustments in the di

As the COVID-19 pandemic rages, lets inject a dose of reality into it. So far, only 1 lakh deaths. Last year, there were 1.5 million deaths in the USA through automobile accidents alone. Worldwide, 3 million traffic-related deaths. Opioids (in various for

"You have to give high marks to our name givers."

In an earlier article on the subject carried by the Business Recorder on 30th March we dwelt on the economic impact of the Coronavirus on Pakistan's economy consequential to the disruption of normal economic activities.

Pakistan has the silver lining of being down the line of domino of countries affected by the health and economic fallout the virus has had on the world so far. This gives corporate Pakistan with the advantage of learning from businesses and economy lockd

Support is growing for debt relief to help the world's poorest, indebted nations - most of them in Africa - confront the economic havoc wreaked by COVID-19. But there is one big question mark: China.

While the poor and the vulnerable continue to grapple with the serious implications of the Coronavirus that has compromised their ability to feed their families prompting the government to disburse cash to meet their daily needs the media and peoples' rep