Faisalabad world’s 3rd dirtiest city; Lahore 10th
In a 2018 report of world cities with dirty air released today, Faisalabad was ranked as the world’s third dirtiest city. Lahore was ranked 10th. Top seven cities with dirtiest air came from from India. The...
Chinese Embassy provides financing rundown of 22 CPEC projects
Our detailed timeline by IMC as things happened: CPEC fact sheet: 2013-2018 Have you seen other CPEC stories on this blog? 16 CPEC projects in Balochistan, 8 in KPK: Chinese Embassy Chinese Embassy shares...
چین کی چالیس سالہ اقتصادی جدوجہد کیسے رنگ لائی
چین کی چالیس سالہ اقتصادی جدوجہد کیسے رنگ لائ تحریر: ولی زاہد ترجمہ: محمد علی شیخ سال ۲۰۱۳ میں مجھے حیدرآباد میں واقع پاکستان سول ایوی ایشن اتھارٹی کے دفتر میں شہری ہوا بازی کے نئے بھرتی شدہ افسران کے گروپ کو ’ایوی...
How 40-year reform has paid off China in economic development
Wali Zahid | IMC Written originally for China Pictorial, Beijing Back in 2013, I was conducting a training module on Aviation Leadership for a newly-recruited, smart cohort of officers of Pakistan’s Civil Aviation...
Lahore tops world ranking for worst air quality
Wali Zahid | IMC Lahore tops the world ranking for worst air quality today, according to AirVisual, the real-time air quality map. The top ten worst ranked cities include three Indian cities – Delhi, Kolkata...
Pakistan GDP grows to 13-year-high 5.8% in 2018: SBP
Pakistan’s economy grew by 5.8% in 2018, the highest in 13 years. Last year, the GDP growth was recorded at 5.4%, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) annual report released yesterday. Graphic,...
Pakistan ranks worst in South Asia in Global Hunger Index
Above: Global Hunger Index (GHI) scores by rank, 2000 GHI, 2005 GHI, 2010 GHI, and 2018 GHI Pakistan has ranked 14th worst among 119 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2018. With 20.5 percent of its...
Pakistan now among top 40 global economies
Pakistan is among the world’s largest economies by Gross Domestic Product, GDP numbers from the World Bank, released on 21 September 2018 reveal. The above visualisation of world economy is done by HowMuch. IMF...
IMF & World Bank see Pakistan GDP growth falling to below 3%
Wali Zahid | IMC 7 April 2019 update: Pakistan’s GDP growth is projected to slow down to 3.4% in fiscal year 2018-19, from 5.8% a year before, and to 2.7% in FY2019-20, reflecting a broad-based weakening in...
Pakistan is world’s 4th fastest growing economy: HSBC
Wali Zahid | IMC Pakistan is the world’s fourth fastest growing economy after Bangladesh, Ethiopia and India, according to the 2018 global research report by HSBC. Titled ‘The World in 2030‘, and...