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The education emergency

Shehbaz Sharif declared an ‘education emergency’ across Pakistan on Wednesday, the 8th of May 2024. This is in...

Published 14 May, 2024 05:18am

Opinion

Federal budget and business leadership

The federal budget is anxiously awaited every year and, as per tradition, the trade organizations get their act...

Published 25 Jan, 2024 04:23am

SBA review: Punjab govt held responsible for Rs115bn unbudgeted spending

ISLAMABAD: The government claims it has taken measures to curtail expenditure but held the Punjab government...

Updated 23 Jan, 2024 09:46am

Dar explains what actually led to changes in budget

Says for securing an agreement with the IMF, the government had to impose new taxes

Updated 05 Aug, 2023 03:06pm

Editorials

Revised budget: a detailed anatomy

EDITORIAL: Federal budget 2023-24 was passed by the National Assembly on Sunday without any meaningful discussion on...

Published 27 Jun, 2023 06:15am

Business & Finance

Budget 2023-24: ‘high earners’ to pay a higher income tax as govt revises rates

Budget proposals originally maintained income tax rates before govt amended the Finance Bill

Updated 26 Jun, 2023 06:40pm

Business & Finance

‘Plan B’: Govt urged to take nation into confidence

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, Mian...

Published 26 Jun, 2023 07:56am

Editorials

4-month KP budget

EDITORIAL: KP (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) chief minister’s advisor on finance Himayatullah Khan presented a Rs462.4...

Published 25 Jun, 2023 02:57am

Pakistan

Flood relief: PPP leaders say they’re in talks with coalition partners

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) said that since the federal budget was announced almost two weeks ago, ...

Published 22 Jun, 2023 05:45am

Business & Finance

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa caretaker govt presents budget for four months

Rs462.16 billion has been set aside for expenses and Rs112 billion for development

Updated 20 Jun, 2023 07:30pm

Business & Finance

Balochistan govt presents Rs750 billion budget for 2023-24

Rs437 billion have been allocated for non-development expenditure

Updated 19 Jun, 2023 10:39pm

Business & Finance

Business community worried over relations with IMF: Mian Zahid

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum, Mian...

Published 18 Jun, 2023 06:07am

Pakistan

Board members of NTL: PAC for probe into assets statements, travel history

ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), on Thursday, directed the Interior Ministry to hold an inquiry into...

Published 16 Jun, 2023 06:27am

Business & Finance

10-year tax holiday a must to realise IT export potential of $15bn: P@SHA

ISLAMABAD: The country is unlikely to realise the information technology export potential of $ 15 billion within the...

Published 14 Jun, 2023 06:21am

Pakistan

Budget places emphasis on ‘growth-inducing’ sectors: PM Shehbaz

Says procurement of crude oil from Russia is part of energy security plan

Published 12 Jun, 2023 03:56pm

Business & Finance

Business community leader praises budget

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan, President of Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum,...

Published 11 Jun, 2023 03:55am

Business & Finance

Federal budget 2023-24 in graphs

The government of Pakistan announced the budget for 2023-24 on Friday. Business Recorder takes a look at the budget...

Published 10 Jun, 2023 06:03pm

Business & Finance

Sindh govt announces up to 35% raise in salaries, 17.5% hike in pension amounts

Sindh CM Murad Ali Shah unveils Rs2.24tr budget aimed at ‘revitalising prosperity’

Updated 10 Jun, 2023 06:50pm

Markets

Post-budget press conference: Dar looks to pacify concerns

Says 'rescheduling domestic debt at present is foolishness'

Updated 10 Jun, 2023 07:37pm

Opinion

Full of sound and fury

An exercise in futility at best, extreme folly at worst, are the most appropriate epithets for the budget 2023-24...

Updated 10 Jun, 2023 01:05pm

Opinion

‘That is Dar’s philosophy of life’?

It’s a typical Dar budget with some populistic flavor. Penalize anyone who makes money legally and wants to grow...

Published 10 Jun, 2023 05:20am

Pakistan

Riba: JI says Dar has failed to keep his word

ISLAMABAD: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistan Chief Sirajul Haq, Friday, criticising the federal budget 2023-24, ...