Farrukh Saleem

PAKISTAN shares a 900-kilometre border with one of the world’s largest energy endowments: 208 billion barrels of proven oil — about 12 per cent of…

  Poverty is not an accident of fate. It is shaped by government institutions and government policy. That is the consistent message from Nobel laureates…

Barrick Mining, the operator of Reko Diq Project, has extended its review by 12 months citing escalating security concerns in Balochistan and the broader Middle…

  Palantir’s Maven Smart System is the C2 (Command and Control) platform at the heart of the war on Iran. The war on Iran is…

  At midnight on March 6, Government of Pakistan, Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) issued a press release. The press release changed a number. That…

  American war strategy is hostage to the American electoral calendar. President Trump will be asking: what does this war do to my numbers in…

  Red alert: Households are cutting meals to pay electricity bills. In the past decade, food’s share of household spending has dropped from 43 percent…

  Question: How much is this pre-war deterrence posture costing the U.S.? Answer: $1 billion a month. Two carrier groups – USS Abraham Lincoln and…

In the 1990s, Pakistan exported the equivalent of 16 percent of GDP. By 2023–24, that ratio had fallen to 10 percent. In absolute terms, Pakistan…

SIFC is structurally flawed – seriously flawed. SIFC is a coordination forum, not astatutory investment authority. SIFC cannot legally bind provinces, regulators, utilities, or courts.…