Dr Qaisar Rashid

On October 21, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, removed Pakistan from its grey list, which was meant for increased monitoring of a suspected, non-compliant country. With that, Pakistan’s international politico-economic credibility has improved. It had been an appalling reality that madrassas begged for alms from society […]

On October 13, at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Reception in Los Angeles, while talking about the changing political dynamics in the broader region of Asia, President of the United States (US) Joe Biden vented his thoughts on Pakistan. Biden said that Pakistan might be “one of the most dangerous nations in the world” as […]

On September 29, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited the embassy of the United States in Islamabad to celebrate the completion of 75 years of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and the US. The US Ambassador Donald Blome hosted the occasion. The event was a recognition of the fact that bilateral relations remained in cold storage, […]

On August 19, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Pakistan’s Independence Day in (Oman) Muscat, Ambassador Imran Ali Chaudhry addressed a gathering of expatriate Pakistanis. Ambassador Chaudhry is known for serving expatriates. He earned an accolade for helping the ex-pats in the United States, where he was Third Secretary in Pakistan’s Embassy, Washington, D.C., at the […]

The year 2022 has seen Pakistan coming to its senses: cut your coat according to your cloth. That is, spend as per the income earned. Habitual of lavish spending, Pakistan has been struggling with methods to collect money from its citizens through a variety of taxes. Other than for flood victims, foreign aid may not […]

On September 2, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report on the revival of its financial assistance program, the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), to Pakistan. The report – call, a disclosure – mentioned that Pakistan’s previous government not only repudiated the agreed conditions but also reversed several key commitments without the consent of the […]

Since July this year, Pakistan has been vacillating between two points: how to repeat Sri Lanka’s experience of turmoil and how to circumvent the same. Apparently, forces are trying to push Pakistan over the edge of economic bankruptcy compared to the forces trying to pull the country out of any such economic crisis. Pakistan is […]

The past few days have shown that Punjab has no citizen-police liaison body, which could evaluate the performance of police officers and reward those who served the citizens aptly during a given tenure. Everything has been subjected to the will of the political masters as if the police were their servants. This August 14 saw […]

On April 11, 2022, the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) took over the reins of Pakistan, with Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister respectively. It was expected that the new government would make headway on the issue of Kashmir. That is, the new government would speak to India about […]

Having comprehensively reformed the country’s system and fully complied with all the imposed conditions, Pakistan would expectantly come out of the grey list of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) by October this year. From then onward, Pakistan would be a free country to think that June 2018, when it was placed on the […]