Opinion - Geo News https://www.geo.tv/ Latest Opinion news and updates from Geo.tv Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:05:26 +05:00 en-US <![CDATA[Competitive federalism or centralised provincial monopolies?]]> ]]> The 18th Constitutional Amendment was one of the most consequential democratic reforms in Pakistan's constitutional history. By devolving 17 major subjects from the federation to...]]> <![CDATA[The cost of underinvestment]]> ]]> Pakistan’s economic debate often oscillates between two extremes: calls for aggressive fiscal austerity on one side and demands for expansionary spending on the other. Yet beneath this polarised discourse lies a...]]> <![CDATA[Rethinking Pakistan's fiscal model]]> ]]> Pakistan’s Budget FY27 should not begin with the question of how much additional revenue can be extracted from the economy. It should begin with a more fundamental question: what kind of economic incentives is the fiscal...]]> <![CDATA[Bank nationalisation: ideology or necessity?]]> ]]> Having had the vantage point of leading a bank through its transition from the nationalisation era into the private sector under Pakistan’s...]]> <![CDATA[Reordering the Middle East]]> ]]> A close look at the recent developments in the Middle East, especially Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, and the US/Israeli attacks on Iran, reveals an ongoing contest for supremacy between the...]]> <![CDATA[The echo of Chagai]]> ]]> History remembers those who rise above constraints and reshape their destiny through courage, vision and collective resolve. For Pakistan, May 28, 1998 – Youm-e-Takbeer – was one such...]]> <![CDATA[The two-tariff solution]]> ]]> Governments globally either directly provide, or tightly regulate, the provision of electricity but not the provision of other important commodities such as flour, milk or soap.

The logic for this is...]]> <![CDATA[A budget written in commitments]]> ]]> Federal budget-making in Pakistan, when the country is in an IMF programme is comparatively...]]> <![CDATA[Budgeting beyond control]]> ]]> In recent years, the fiscal deficit has consistently exceeded budget estimates by almost 25% on average, partly due to inadequate revenue projections, weak expenditure controls and...]]> <![CDATA[Terror challenge]]> ]]> The story of terrorism in Pakistan was neither sudden nor accidental. It evolved gradually through decades of geopolitical conflict and...]]> <![CDATA[Megawatt nationalism is over]]> ]]> Pakistan's federal budget is an energy policy statement, a climate policy statement and a fiscal survival plan. The central question before the budget makers is...]]> <![CDATA[The indignity of being salaried]]> ]]> The federal budget for FY2026-27 is under preparation with one undeniable reality: the salaried class now is the most exploited source of state revenue.

According to data released by the FBR for FY2024-25, the...]]> <![CDATA[Pakistan's economic overhaul]]> ]]> A powerful message last month from Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, promising to abstain from new foreign loans, marked a timely step towards resolving a key economic issue facing...]]> <![CDATA[Pakistan's lost children]]> ]]> Pakistan carries a wound that rarely makes front pages. Twenty-five million children between the ages of five and sixteen are not in school. That is roughly...]]> <![CDATA[The border as lifeline]]> ]]> In October 2025, Pakistan closed all major western crossings with Afghanistan. Pakistan stated that the closures were necessary because of escalating tensions and TTP-linked attacks originating from...]]> <![CDATA[28th time the charm?]]> ]]> There are rumours of another amendment to our much-amended constitution – and this time it is said it might actually reform governance and end up decreasing taxes and improving the lives of...]]> <![CDATA[Your competition in 2027 isn't a person, it's software with a wallet]]> ]]> I just watched a machine pay another machine.

No bank. No card. No human in the loop. $0.01 in USDC, settled in four seconds,...]]> <![CDATA[The Chagai dividend]]> ]]> On the morning of 28 May 1998, five nuclear devices were detonated in the granite hills of Chagai, and a country that had lived for two decades under the threat of being...]]> <![CDATA[Superpower dynamics]]> ]]> The visit of US President Donald Trump to Beijing has once again drawn global attention to the evolving relationship between...]]> <![CDATA[Pakistan's long war]]> ]]> The acts of terror by entities like the TTP and now their equally virulent variants like...]]>