Waqas A. Khan

Waqas A. Khan

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Rising Imports Declining Exports in Pakistan

Can 180BN Package Help? Since her independence, the beautiful country Pakistan has done a lot of miracles in many sectors including the economy. With a per capita income of more than US$ 3500 in Purchasing Power Parity, Pakistan is the 27th largest economy in the world. But unfortunately, political and policy instability, energy crisis, insecure …

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Pakistan’s Motorcycle Industry

Pakistan’s Motorcycle Industry is less manufacturing and more assembling in nature. The licensing process for the new entrants in the industry is simple. The major requirement is the establishment of the factory where motorcycle assembly, engine assembly, painting and testing of the final product can be done at one designated place. An NOC from the …

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Rice, Economy and Sustainability

Rice Productivity of Pakistan is very low among major rice producing countries of the globe merely due to such conventional and indigenous sowing techniques of rice cultivation which are not time and resource efficient. Lack of technology and innovative methods in our cultivating culture leads the farmers to spend more and get less return. Specifically, …

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From a Market to Monopoly? Telecom’s Future in Pakistan

In Tang China, (618-907 AD), the Salt Commission was one of the most influential monopolies. In 758, after a peasant revolution and after the land tax revenues fell, a salt commission was created. The Tang Dynasty, then king of the China knew salt’s essentiality for its nutritional and preservation values. Dynasty controlled all major salt …

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Coax, Squash and Squeeze (Automobile Industry in Pakistan)

KIA Sportage, Classic, Spectra and Ceres, Hyundai Excel, Shahzore and Santro, Chevrolet Optra, Nissan, Revo, Mazda, Subaru and many other famous brands have wrapped up and left the business in Pakistan. After spending supercilious 0.7 million rupees on a “new” car like Mehran (very basic version of the globally retired second generation Suzuki Alto 1984–1988), …

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The Languishing Agriculture in Pakistan

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations, Pakistan is one of the world’s largest producers and suppliers of the chickpeas (3rd), cotton (4th), rice (4th), mangoes (4th), milk (5th), date palms (5th), sugarcane (5th), apricots (6th), oranges (6th), onions (7th),), wheat (7th), and farm output (8th). So what is the concern? …

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Common Misconceptions about the Agriculture Industry in Pakistan Part-2

No Scope for Organic Farming in Pakistan As defined by FAO (1999) “Organic farming is an environmental friendly ecosystem management in which, use of all kinds of synthetic inputs is eliminated”. In the area demarcated for “organic farming” crops are cultivated without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, veterinary drugs, hormones, Genetically Modified Seeds (GM …

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Common Misconceptions about the Agriculture Industry in Pakistan

Do you believe that markets for agricultural commodities are highly distorted? And if you believe this, then I would say that it is an understatement because almost all high-income countries engage a dizzying array of policies to support farm income, such as import tariffs; tariff-rate quotas (in which imports regarding agriculture are subject to a …

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Dr. Waqas A. Khan is a Journalist - Educationist - Lawyer from Kasur Pakistan.