TIR - Opening endless business opportunities in regional markets and promoting connectivity.

Banks have faced criticism for taking the easy route out and investing in government debt rather than, for example, helping people fund their own homes.

  The construction industry of Pakistan is in a state of panic. We again fear a rise in steel prices. In the last 12 months,...

To safeguard consumer rights it is important that Suo moto cases under article 184 (3) should be heard by at least a five-member bench of senior-most judges of the Supreme Court and a review by a full-court and that an insurance market is developed to help protect innocent consumers against malafide actions by external actors.

Pakistan cannot afford to have an uncompetitive export-oriented sector. The country must stop following an outdated import-substitution policy that relies on levying protectionist duties as it has contributed to stagnancy in technological innovation and an anti-export bias.

NUST scholar Dr. Atia Ali Kazmi in her insightful book, The Road to Balance in the Asia Pacific: Geopolitics of American Rebalancing and Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, explains the unique coupling in the political, economic, and security-military spheres that can make or break the global order.

This provocative book's central idea revolves around the feeling of perpetual déjà surrounding Pakistan's political theatre. Every political scene has been enacted before and is being re-telecast repeatedly. We are stuck in circular time and history and have not found our Nirvanic moment.

Dr. Farrukh Saleem, Pakistan's prominent economic analyst argues that while Central Asia offers opportunities for exports, much bigger market still lies in EU, US, UK and China but it needs product competitiveness which the government ignores.

NICL takes pride in its partnership with NLC on the historic occasion of commencing TIR operations by road to Turkey and Azerbaijan. NICL will be providing risk insurance coverage and insurance guarantee for trade transactions being facilitated through TIR under the provisions of CMR.

One of the challenges this government has faced with this prime minister (Imran Khan) is that he has set a new paradigm whereby Pakistan will never be up for sale.

The Taliban have a unique opportunity to unite their country and launch the country on a development trajectory if some immediate economic and governance issues are addressed. International recognition is a pressing need and Pakistan needs to take a less ambiguous position and lead from the front.

The National Logistics Cell (NLC)'s first TIR commercial operation commences under the Ministry of Commerce's vision of regional connectivity.