Afshan Subohi
GENEVA, May 1: Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi has called on the governments of all member states of the World Trade...
Published 02 May, 2005 12:00am
PEOPLE are generally given to take government generated economic statistics with a pinch of salt. It wouldn’t be a...
Published 18 Apr, 2005 12:00am
When industralists and traders talk of trade, the subject is more often China. But Pakistani industrialists look ...
Published 13 Oct, 2003 12:00am
The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), the powerful body of the country’s business...
Published 12 May, 2003 12:00am
If an industrialist in Karachi’s industrial zone were to price a pack of 12 ball point pens, or a couple of battery...
Published 28 Apr, 2003 12:00am
If an industrialist in Karachi’s industrial zone were to price a pack of 12 ball point pens, or a couple of battery...
Published 28 Apr, 2003 12:00am
No one was expecting wonders to emerge from the meeting of the World Economic Forum. But the way it reinforced the...
Published 03 Feb, 2003 12:00am
KARACHI, Dec 31: Perhaps the most striking statement made by President Pervez Musharraf, in his address to the...
Published 01 Jan, 2003 12:00am
During this season of Eid festivities, Karachiites were seen to have gone on a spending spree. Since the middle ...
Published 16 Dec, 2002 12:00am
THE reigns of the government have changed hands and democracy is restored. Perhaps not ideally in the form as many ...
Published 25 Nov, 2002 12:00am
The poor of the country will have to wait their turn to a quality life, or keep fending for themselves as best they...
Published 04 Nov, 2002 12:00am
Post election, the air is thick with suspense. Speculations are rife on who and what sort of government would assume...
Published 21 Oct, 2002 12:00am
As the country re-enters the murky waters of the ‘made-to-order’ democratic set-up, the bureaucratic hierarchy in...
Published 14 Oct, 2002 12:00am
IN JUST THREE days from today the nation is going to polls on October 10. A change is going to come about. It seems,...
Published 07 Oct, 2002 12:00am
IN JUST THREE days from today the nation is going to polls on October 10. A change is going to come about. It seems,...
Published 07 Oct, 2002 12:00am
THE THINLY-VEILED message emerging out of the Johannesburg summit for us— people of Pakistan and other less ...
Published 23 Sep, 2002 12:00am
There is a ten-year long road that stretches between the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and the ongoing summit on...
Published 02 Sep, 2002 12:00am
It is difficult to argue with absolute truths. But one that has constantly escaped the country’s financial managers...
Published 15 Jul, 2002 12:00am
THE CORPORATE barons, the mill owners, the stock brokers and the rest of the well-fed fortunate are falling over one...
Published 24 Jun, 2002 12:00am
Is there no other way but to levy general sales tax on items of daily use because donors want us to do so? Will it...
Published 10 Jun, 2002 12:00am
