Mahnoor Sheikh

Pakistan has long been struggling with providing an affordable and user-friendly banking experience to its huge population of 220 million. From simply opening a bank account to carrying out day-to-day financial transactions, dealing with the banking sector in Pakistan is as painstaking as it can be. While the central bank, commercial banks, microfinance banks and […]

Every time Finance Minister Miftah Ismail addresses an unscheduled press conference, we know a petrol bomb is dropping. After the third hike, the petrol prices have jumped up to an unprecedented Rs 234 per litre. While a part of this government action is to secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bail-out, most of it can […]

The PMLN is certainly on a tight ship, facing the twin challenge of a deteriorating economy and rising political pressure. The people of the country cannot simply sympathise with the ruling coalition because they simply chose it for themselves. They quite literally cited the inefficiency of the PTI government and its failure to sustain the […]

There’s simply no concept of work-life balance in Pakistan. Whenever it comes to policies related to the benefit of the organisations, employees are made to work for longer hours and days a week; however, when the employees’ wellbeing is at stake, it is outrightly ignored. Newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif did something similar when […]

After an eventful week, Imran Khan was ousted as the prime minister through a vote of no confidence. To date, no prime minister has been able to complete a five-year term in Pakistan and this is for the first time that a prime minister has been removed in the country through a no-confidence vote. But […]

Wars are easier to start but difficult to end. It took the United States two decades to bring an end to the lingering Afghan war but it was only a matter of days that Kabul fell into the hands of Taliban. The war fatigue forced the Afghan forces to bow down before the warlords as […]