Interview with Sardar Shoukat Popalzai – President, Balochistan Economic Forum Profile: Sardar Shoukat Popalzai, President Balochistan Economic Forum, gained his…
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Balochistan Economic Forum fully supports BRI Interview with Sardar Shoukat Popalzai – President, Balochistan Economic Forum Profile: Sardar Shoukat Popalzai,…
Focus Reko Diq as its gold mines could be worth $1 trillion A conversation with Sardar Shoukat Popalzai — President,…
Analysis of Economic Survey of Pakistan FY2021 showed that Gwadar Port is about 630 km away from Karachi and 120…
Gwadar’s development opening opportunities for other cities to grow Interview with Sardar Shoukat Popalzai – President, Balochistan Economic Forum [box…
Statistics showed that worldwide GDP is now predicted to increase by 6 percent during 2021. In Pakistan, the present report…
Energy is recognized as a key player in socio-economic progress of any country. Pakistan, like other developing nations in the…
Collecting gas from gas fields, transporting it to over hundreds of kilometers through large pipelines, and then distributing it to…
In December, 2020, the 5th meeting of the Joint Working Group on Gwadar, which includes, representatives of multiple Ministries from…
Constituting 44 percent of the country’s total landmass, Balochistan still remains underdeveloped province. It is rich in natural resources. It…
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Balochistan is rich in natural resources. It is strategically located on the confluence of South, west and Central Asia. The…
With a total outlay of Rs465.528 billion, the Balochistan budget increases spending on education, as it allocates 17% or Rs64…
The poverty level mounts in Balochistan, as the province reels under the lockdown measures to fight coronavirus pandemic. Present PTI…
Present PTI government of Prime Minister Imran Khan is for making investment in human development to upgrade the standard of…
Pakistan is 6th most populous country of world having a population of 219,652,490 people; which is 2.83% of the total world population.…
Banks can play a key role in the growth of insurance industry in the province Larger the risk level, higher…
Balochistan is largely an untapped telecom market with the lowest number of mobile phone users. In 2018, a dozen telecom…
Pakistan’s banking sector witnessed unprecedented growth after 2001 due to low interest rate and product innovation in consumer financing. Like…
Social sector in Balochistan suffered negligence for years. Investments in education and health sectors mean formation of human capital that…
Present government of Prime Minister Imran Khan has made some policy changes to facilitate new companies in the Exploration &…
Pakistan witnessed a massive increase of 317 percent in tourist traffic at cultural sites over the past five years, according…
Pakistan: a best holiday destination for 2020 In 2018, the Travel & Tourism (T&T) industry helped generate 10.4 percent of…
Though Balochistan has vast potential in insurance sector, yet the sector could not play its due role in the local…
With 770km long coastal belt along the Arabian Sea, Balochistan has the 70 percent of the country’s total coastline of…
Pakistan, the sixth largest producer of dates is the third major exporter of dates in the world. According to an…
Balochistan still lacks financial inclusion. Truly speaking, it still lacks access to formal financial services including savings, credit, insurance and…
Home-based workers are an important part of Balochistan’s informal economy. Home-based work exists in all sectors of employment including handicrafts,…
Last year, Balochistan government led by Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan decided to impose health and education emergency in the…
This month, Balochistan government is holding a three-day international Livestock Expo from November18 to 20 in Quetta with an aim…
To progress inquiring German Education Policy may be helpful CPEC projects will bring in 0.7m jobs for Pakistan and great…
Balochistan government led by Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan plans to increase agricultural output by devising out of the box…
A nationwide campaign of Bahria University to promote country’s blue economy In recent years, policymakers have come to the conclusion…
Most depressed Balochistan needs foreign and local investment to develop its economic sectors. The businessmen hesitate to invest due to…
Pakistan imports Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) to meet the demand of the country’s power sector. The gas indigenously produced stands…
Pakistan can earn millions of rupees in terms of foreign exchange by developing tourism industry in Balochistan. With the development…
Though Balochistan has vast potential in insurance sector, yet the sector could not play its due role in the local…
Balochistan is the most poor and least developed province of Pakistan. The Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) uses a broader concept…
Balochistan is far behind from other provinces in economic development. It is assumed that if Gwadar Port becomes fully operational…
Pakistan is taking initiative to develop Gwadar Port in Balochistan as a duty-free port with free economic zone on the…
Balochistan is the country’s poorest and least-developed province. The ever-neglected and discriminated masses of the province are still living in…
The blue economy is the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic development and growth, improved livelihoods, and creation of…
Balochistan is the country’s largest province, with nearly 44 percent of its surface area and a thinly dispersed population of…
Balochistan is endowed with rich mineral resources. There is a wider scope for setting up mineral-based industrial units in the…
Home-based workers are a major section of the society. They have to be seen as workers and producers. For making…
Though Balochistan has vast potential in insurance sector, yet the sector could not play its due role in the local…
Balochistan offers the investors lucrative opportunities to invest in fruit farms. The distinctive climatic conditions in the province provide diversity…
Government must announce a new livestock policy involving the private sector for promotion of the organized cattle farming activities in…
Last week, the Balochistan government announced a Rs419.92 billion budget for the fiscal year 2019-20 with a Rs41.71 billion deficit…
Balochistan has been lacking a corporate culture and hence it witnessed a meager corporate growth over the past many decades…
There is a strong nexus of high illiteracy with high poverty in least developed Balochistan. A lethal combination of militancy…
The present Balochistan government led by Chief Minister Jam Kamal needs to allocate sufficient funds in the budget for next…
Insurance business generally grows on risk perception in a society. Larger the risk level, higher the growth of insurance industry.…
A recent World Bank report titled ‘State of Water Supply, Sanitation and Poverty in Pakistan’, said that Balochistan has by…
Balochistan has huge potential in trade and commerce by virtue of its strategic location. A need is felt to exploit…
Balochistan is the least developed region of the country. Local youth are still deprived of the opportunities and facilities, which…
Balochistan has the country’s extensive oil and gas reserves. According to an estimate, out of the Pakistan’s estimated 25.1 trillion…
The renewable energy sources like water, wind, sunlight etc are considered as clean, eco-friendly and sustainable all over the world.…
Gwadar Port has the potential to become the industrial crown of the country. It can transform the Pakistan’s economic status…
Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had a clear vision of Muslim nationalism in the subcontinent and he presented it in crystal-clear words in…
Pakistan’s area-wise largest province Balochistan is still caught in underdevelopment trap. The province is rich in natural resources. It has tremendous potential…
The coastal areas of Balochistan like Gwadar and Pasni in Makran district provide good conditions and climate for installation and…
The agriculture sector in Balochistan is facing many serious challenge and constraints for future growth. These challenges include reclamation of…
Investing in higher education is very important for the economic development of Balochistan. The province needs academicians, research scholars and…
Govt must support private sector to set up assembling units in Gwadar Sector has been growing at 8pc a year…
The policy makers in Quetta and Islamabad should focus on the development of social sector and make significant investments in…
Present govt must formulate an aggressive exploration policy for the province Present government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan needs…
Present government of Prime Minister Imran Khan should announce incentives for induction of the private sector in fisheries development, as…
With a strategic location in the region and having vast untapped natural resources, diversity of climate, simultaneously five ecological zones,…
Education must be the top priority of the Balochistan government, which should provide both financial and technical support to improve…
Pakistan’s education sector is being identified as poor quality by independent analysts since long. The education sector is getting the…
The government of Prime Minister Imran Khan should focus and pay special attention to the untapped sectors of Balochistan economy…
Balochistan is the country’s poorest province with standards of living and social indicators lagging substantially behind the rest of the…
Balochistan is rich in renewable energy (RE) resources, which must be exploited for sustainable development of the province. The government…
Balochistan has been lacking a corporate culture and hence it witnessed a meager corporate growth over the past many decades…
There is a lot of potential for development in the livestock and dairy sectors, as Balochistan can earn a substantial…
Balochistan still lacks proper system of financial inclusion. Simply speaking, it still lacks access to formal financial services including savings,…
Emergent water issue is the main concern for the country and the new Government of Pakistan led by Imran Khan…
No doubt, shy investment in oil and gas sector and the security concerns in the province have been the key…
Livestock development is linked with poverty alleviation in Balochistan as its 70 percent population is directly or indirectly involved in…
Last week, the Pakistani nation celebrated its 71st Independence Day with national enthusiasm and fervor. Balochistan, the country’s largest province…
The risk perception — risks to life, assets and public and private properties — has been higher and widely prevalent…
The revival and development of two refinery projects, proposed one at Gwadar and other at Hub, in coastal Balochistan have…
The company was formed in January 1995 as a public listed company. It started its first oil refinery with a…
The upcoming government-led by Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) who has taken absolute majority after July 25…
For obtaining health capital in Balochistan, there is a dire need to resolve basic and pressing issues related to the…
Forestry is an important sector, which has been the victim of sheer negligence of economic planners in Balochistan. No serious…
As the Gwadar Port has immense importance not only for trade with Central Asian Republics (CARs) but also for the…
Pakistan may seek help from China, its closest friend in order to develop automobile industry in Gwadar. Presently, China’s vehicle…