Tag: Dr Farrukh Saleem articles in The News
Debt trap – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Over the past 32 months, the PTI government has spent Rs10 trillion more than the government’s income. That’s the budgetary deficit. The budgetary deficit...
Team failure? – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Asad Umar blamed the PML-N. Asad Umar lasted eight months. Hafeez Shaikh blamed Asad Umar. Hafeez Shaikh lasted 23 months. Now Shaukat Tareen is...
Real issues – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Is the PDM the real issue? Is the Senate election the real issue? For the 32 million, largely apolitical Pakistani families neither the PDM...
Implosion: 2025 – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Interest payments as a percentage of FBR taxes: In 2017, a mere four years ago, Pakistan’s total debt payment amounted to 39 percent...
System failure? – Dr Farrukh Saleem
A total of 11 general elections over the past 48 years. Is the ‘system’ working? Have a look at the four ground realities. One,...
Lessons from Daska – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Lesson 1: Elections in Pakistan have become an intra-elite, medieval tribal war. An election was supposed to be a “formal group decision-making process by...
Economic policy – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Economic policy is four actions that governments take in the economic field: tax, government spending, interest rates and money supply. Our national debt is...
Political stability – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Political stability in China pulled out 850 million Chinese out of poverty where the percentage of Chinese living in extreme poverty fell from 88...
Xi Jinping Thought – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era’, or in short ‘Xi Jinping Thought’ is a ‘set of policies and...
Course correction – Dr Farrukh Saleem
Imran Khan took oath as the 22nd prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. August 2018 to January 2021: in a nutshell,...