2024-05-28-12-28
A budget is not merely a document of aggregated information on revenues, capital, and external receipts and on the...
Published 28 May, 2024 05:30am
2024-05-28-12-28
May 28 has a special significance in the life of every Pakistani. On this day, the scientists, engineers and...
Published 28 May, 2024 05:30am
2024-05-27-01-05
There is overwhelming evidence that approval of the budget for next fiscal year, reportedly to be presented to...
Updated 27 May, 2024 06:33am
2024-05-27-01-05
Pakistan’s investment-to-GDP ratio is at its lowest in fifty years, despite promises of tens of billions in ...
Updated 27 May, 2024 06:54am
2024-05-27-01-05
Recently, the United States and other Western countries have been incessantly hyping the so-called “overcapacity...
Updated 27 May, 2024 07:04am
2024-05-27-01-05
The government’s recent contemplation of cutting off gas supply to industrial captive power plants (CPPs) while...
Updated 27 May, 2024 07:00am
2024-05-26-01-16
As a result of the alleged corruption and ineptitude of the power bureaucracy in the country, the cost of dealing...
Published 26 May, 2024 02:56am
2024-05-25-01-16
Professor Adnan Khan, Chief Economist at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK in a...
Updated 25 May, 2024 07:01am
2024-05-25-01-16
A Sindh High Court (SHC) bench comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Mohammad Abdur Rahman has directed...
Updated 25 May, 2024 07:01am
2024-05-25-01-16
Twenty months after the great deluge 2022 occurred, 45-year-old Kashi and her 9 boys and 4 girls sit under a...
Updated 25 May, 2024 07:03am
2024-05-25-01-16
“So a grand state owned entity (SOE) sale is on the cards.”
“Indeed and this means incoming dollars,...
Published 25 May, 2024 06:33am
2024-05-24-01-41
“Simplify taxes, reduce the cost of excessive documentation, open the economy for higher growth and employment,...
Updated 24 May, 2024 05:49am
2024-05-24-01-41
International Monetary Fund (IMF) wishes government to have primary surplus, which means that before paying interest...
Updated 27 May, 2024 07:12pm
2024-05-24-01-41
Confusion prevails over the definition of state (Riasat). Perhaps Pakistan is the only country in the world that was...
Published 24 May, 2024 05:58am
2024-05-24-01-41
“It’s not as if I don’t have much sympathy for Raoof Hassan after his attack.” “He suffered, I wouldn’t...
Published 24 May, 2024 05:49am
2024-05-23-01-09
Why all the fuss about dragging Ayub Khan out of his grave just to get at Omar Ayub Khan? The man has every right to...
Updated 23 May, 2024 05:49am
2024-05-23-01-09
Pakistan’s economy is confronting numerous challenges like fiscal deficits, low savings, limited investment, low...
Updated 23 May, 2024 05:55am
2024-05-23-12-46
Pakistan leads the way in the incidence of illegal abstraction of energy (theft of electricity in the legal lingo)....
Updated 23 May, 2024 05:41am
2024-05-23-12-49
“So explain the Punjab defamation bill to me.” “An aggrieved person can go to the one-man tribunal, appointed by the...
Updated 23 May, 2024 05:43am
2024-05-22-01-30
In 2019 when I was the Chairman of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) I asked my Director General International Taxation...
Published 22 May, 2024 05:54am
