Editorial & Opinion
Friday, 18 February 2011 12:45
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The PPP government has been speaking with different voices on Shah Mehmood Qureshi's ouster as foreign minister. Senior party leaders and ministers fired a barrage of criticism against Qureshi following his refusal to accept the offer of water and power ministry, and his public statement that after consulting people in the Foreign Office he did not think Raymond Davis, the American who shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore, enjoyed blanket immunity as a diplomat. He was taken to task for not accepting the party leadership's decision to change his portfolio. The newly appointed Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdaus Ashiq Awan criticised him for 'creating a bad environment' regarding the Davis immunity issue. Awan even evoked ridicule - she was a member of the party General Musharraf patronised, PML-Q, until shortly before joining the PPP - as she took a personal dig at Qureshi alleging that he had left the cabinet ...
Widely advertised in the media and at various national saving centres throughout the country, the scheme to sell treasury bills to the general public seems to have died down with a whimper. According to reliable sources, the Ministry of Finance has finally blocked the initiative of the Central Directorate of National Savings (CDNS) for mobilising Rs 80 billion public savings through short-term treasury bills with a maturity period of three months to one year because ...
EDITORIAL (September 07 2010): It is more than apparent that fresh fiscal measures have to be taken to respond to the new situation, arising from large-scale devastation caused by floods.According to a report in a reputed newspaper, the government has decided in principle to impose a flood tax on all imports and a surcharge in the range of 5 to 10 percent on all incomes exceeding Rs 300,000 per annum, including salaries and profits, not ...
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