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Webinar Date : Friday, Sep 03, 2021 at 11:00 AM Webinar Moderator: Dr. Nadeem-ul-Haque, VC, PIDE Webinar Speaker : Mr. Omer Jawed Ghani, CEO Trioca Ventures

Webinar on "Virtualizing Services In Pakistan" Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 09:00 PM   Speakers:  Faisal Haque, Virtualizing Services by offering Internet for All Khalid Raza, Network options for Universal Ahmed Shahid, Using 5G as last mile optionor Dr Suuhail Chughtai, Deploying Telemedicine in Pakistan lmran Qureshi, Virtual Education in Pakistan

Moderator: Dr Nadeem Ul Haque, VC, PIDE Registration Link:  https://forms.gle/DBvj5GzMGDd1TWnf9   Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 07:00 PM (PST) In a significant move, the federal cabinet approved amendments in the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Act in the name of central bank autonomy, price stability and accountability. The benefit of central bank independence is well documented in the literature. Howe...

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haque Chair: Abdul Razak Daood, Adviser for Commerce and Investment, Ministry of Commerce, Government of Pakistan Presenter:  Ahmed Waqar Qasim, Research Economist, PIDE Saddam Hussain, Research Economist, PIDE Discussant:  Gohar Ejaz, Patron-in-Chief, All Pakistan Textile Mills Association Khadija Malik Bari Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Administration, Islama...

Moderator:  Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE)   Guest Speaker: Ayesha Razzaque (Educationist/Researcher/Consultant)   Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 11:00 AM (PST) "Ayesha Razzaque has a doctorate and a Masters degree in Educational Administration from the College of Education, Michigan State University (MSU). She holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from UET Taxila. Ayesha benefits f...

Saturday, March 20, 2021 at 06:00 PM (PST) Guest Speaker: Mr. Najam Sethi, Author, Journalist, Political Commentator & Chairman of PSL Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haq, Vice Chancellor, PIDE Cricket Leagues have become one of the raging phenomena across the globe. The existing scholarship asserts that such professional leagues provide profitable avenues for players, governments, boards, public and inv...

Monday, March 15, 2021 at 10:00 AM (PST)   Chair: Senator Dr. Sania Nishtar Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation and Chairperson BISP.   Moderator:  Dr. Nadeem Ul Haq, VC, PIDE Speakers: Faisal Rifaq, CEO at Sehat Sahulat Program, Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Shabnam Sarfraz, Member Social Sector, Ministry of Pla...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 07:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE) Speakers: Ms. Anum Malkani, Director Policy Advisory, Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP) Mr. Asad Beyg, Executive Director/Founder, Media Matters for Democracy & Media Lab Mr. Aftab Alam, Media Law Specialist & Policy Expert Mr. Bilal Gilani, Executive Director, Gallup Pakistan Dr Huma Baqai, Media...

Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 07:00 PM (PST) Speakers: Dr. Azra Raza (Cancer Specialist and Researcher) Dr. Samia Altaf (Public Health Specialist)   Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE)   Dr. Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York. Previously, she was the Chief of Hematology-Oncology and the Gladys Smith Martin...

Moderator:  Dr. Durre Nayab, Joint Director PIDE   Book Author:  Dr. Anita M. Weiss   Discussants Raza Rumi, Policy analyst Saba Gul Khattak, Political scientist Yaqoob Khan Bangash, Historian This book identifies and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, and saying ‘stop’ to the violent extremism that has manifested...

Our particular focus areas will be: 1-Should the use of SROs be only confined to formulation of procedures for implementing a tax law/laws? 2-If the SROs allowing tax concessions were eliminated, would it not hurt those sectors which are currently benefiting from them? 3-Is it true that SROs are a source of promoting a culture of rent-seeking? 4- Can we find any positive results of SROs in any are...

Webinar on "Pakistan's Trade Potential and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership" Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE)   Panelist:  Ms Anabel Gonzales Dr. Manzoor Ahmed Dr Hassan Khawar

Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 7:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE) Panelists: Salim Raza Dr Arshad Zaman Sikander Khan Istaqbal Mehdi Tasneem Noorani This is the first webinar of the series focusing on the issues attached with the ‘State Owner Enterprises’, or the ‘Public Sector Enterprises’.  Management of Public Enterprises (PEs/ SOEs) globally is a challenging task. Large numbe...

Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 7:00 PM (PST) Moderator Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE) Panelists 1. Arif Hasan 2. Dr. Naveed Iftikhar 3. Samna Sadaf Khan   Pakistan currently houses some of the largest cities in the world. It has about 20 cities with populations of above a million. Karachi and Lahore are among the twenty-five mega cities in the world. This rapid urbanization is accompanied by conges...

Tuesday, January 19, 2020 at 7:00 PM (PST)   Moderator:  Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC PIDE)   Panelists 1. Nadeem Khurshid 2. Dr. Nausheen H. Anwar 3. Dr. Murtaza Haider All major cities in Pakistan are in the process of reviewing and updating their master plans. Our cities spend resources and time developing masterplans to lock themselves and their cities into a predetermined path of growth and lifest...

Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque, VC PIDE   Speaker:  Dr. Shandana Khan Mohmand, Book Author   About the Author: Her work in this area focuses on questions of representation, accountability, and responsiveness, and takes a political economy approach to the analysis of local government and service provision in the Western Balkans, South Asia, and Africa.    

Wednesday, January 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC, PIDE) Speaker: Prof. James A. Robinson   By the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to despotism, anarchy or asphyxiating norms - and explains ho...

Tuesday, January 12, 2020 at 7:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque, VC PIDE Speaker: Prof. Abhijit V. Banerjee   About Speaker: Professor Banerjee is the recipient of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, awarded jointly with Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty." Banerjee is a past presiden...

Monday, January 11, 2020 at 7:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque (VC. PIDE) Speaker: Prof. Cass R. Sunstein About Speaker:  Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. In 2018, he received the Holberg Prize from the government of Norway, some...

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers Zarar Khuhro (Senior Journalist and Hots of Zara Hut Kay) Amer Zafar Durrani (President, Reenergia) Zaigham Khan (Executive Director, Civic Action Resources) Omar Quraishi (Journalist and CEO, Positive Media Communications) Usman Raza Jolaha (Founder/President, Volunteer Force Pakistan)   There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan...

Monday, December 28, 2020 at 07:00 PM (PST) Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers Mr. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob (President PILDAT) Dr. Adnan Rasool (Assistant Professor Political Science- University of Tennessee-Martin ) Ms. Jamila Aslam (Advocate Supreme Court) , Ms. Nasim Zehra (Journalist)   There is talk of a Grand National Dialog in Pakistan. In the past, such initiatives have l...

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers  Mr. Asad Rahim (Adjunct Faculty - School of Law ) Mr. Raza Rumi (Policy Analyst) Ms. Arifa Noor (Journalist), Mr. Farooq Tirmizi (Author-Profit) Mr. Moeed Pirzada (Senior Journalist, Analyst) Mr. Farooq Tirmzi (Author - Profit)     Description: We at PIDE are proposing a Grand National (intellectual) dialog on reform to parallel and possib...

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers  Ms. Najma Pirzada (Managing Editor-Global Village Space Publications ) Mr. Fahd Hussain (Journalist/Resident Editor Dawn ) Dr. Erum Haider (Assistant Professor Political Science and Environmental Studies College of Wooster OH) Ms. Huzaima Bukhari (Advocate High Court and Visiting Faculty at LUMS)   Description:  There is talk of a Grand Na...

Moderator: Dr Nadeem ul Haq (VC. PIDE) Panelists/Speakers: Mosharraf Zaidi (Senior Fellow-Tabadlab) Osama Siddique (Associate Fellow at IDEAS and the Executive Director of Law & Policy Research Network (LPRN)) Amber Darr (Barrister, Advocate Supreme Court, Senior Research Fellow-UCL, Lecturer Coventry Law School) Usman Raza Jolaha, Founder/President, Volunteer Force Pakistan   There is talk of a G...

Key Note Speaker: Riaz Riazuddin Moderator: Dr. Nadeem ul Haque Knowledge Brief Presenters: Abdul Jalil and Hafsa Hina   Riaz Riazuddin is a former Deputy Governor of State Bank of Pakistan. He served as Acting Governor very briefly in 2017. He also worked as Chief Economic Adviser and Director of Research Department of SBP. He is the founding editor of the SBP Working Paper Series. He also co-aut...