ANALYSIS: Businesses await economic pain
(WorldNews Pakistan)

PAKISTAN´s crashing stock market in the wake of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif´s conviction on corruption-related charges should have presented an opportunity for bargain-hunters to prepare for attractive deals before a future recovery. But in the midst of rapidly built up anxieties ahead of this years´ parliamentary elections, fear of the unknown has surrounded some of the largest business houses across Pakistan. For the moment, many businessmen are eager to counsel a `wait and see´ view leading up to a new government settling in. The modalities of dealing with the most formidable economic crisis to ever face Pakistan will then begin unfolding and possibly helping to lift part of the...