A currency dealer counts US dollars at a shop in Karachi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Remittances in Pakistan are not in line with the number of Pakistani...
An employee working at a textile factory in Pakistan's port city of Karachi, on April 7, 2011. — AFPLAHORE: One of the many drawbacks that the...
We have not developed a policy that checks the promotion of vested interests
People buy pulses and grains at a wholesale market. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The institutions in developed economies ensure that serious social conflicts...
This image portrays a "Tax Return" written by a typewriter. — Unsplash/FileLAHORE: The government is planning to evaluate residential properties...
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses a National Assembly session. — PID/FileLAHORE: The economy has stabilized after huge sacrifices by the...
A Pakistan International Airline aircraft takes off in this undated picture. — Radio Pakistan/FileLAHORE: We have seen in recent days that the...
This picture taken on January 30, 2023 shows residents buying vegetable at a market in Karachi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The downslide in the economy has...
Representational image of growth in economy. — APP FileLAHORE: The normal ingredients of economic growth include political stability, consistency...
People attend the 2023 Spring Meetings inside the International Monetary Fund in Washington, US, April 12, 2023. — AFPLAHORE: One fails to...
This image released on March 3, 2022, shows the FBR building. — Facebook/Federal Board of RevenueLAHORE: Civil servants are responsible for...
A representational image showing calculation of tax on a calculator. — AFP/FileLAHORE: It took three years for the government to realise that the...
Workers washing 300 KWP solar PV system after its installation at Nishtar Medical University and Hospital in Multan, on December 4, 2022. —...
In this picture, taken on September 2, 2022, farmers plant paddy saplings in a field in flood-hit Sukkur, Sindh province. — AFPLAHORE: While SIFC...
Representational file of an BMW car. — AFP FileLAHORE: Small improvements in economic credentials of the country are encouraging, but ask for more...
A security guard sits in front of a wall with signs and slogans at the operation building at the Pakistan Steel Mills on the outskirts of Karachi....
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif greet each other during the former's three-day official visit in Islamabad, April...
IMF will closely watch the privatization of PIA by the end of June
A woman cooks food for her family at a camp in Sohbatpur, Jaffarabad district of Pakistan's Balochistan province. — AFP/ FileLAHORE: Rising...
Prime Minister personally promises to ensure that our bureaucracy does not play tricks with them
A man counts US dollars in a money exchange shop in Dhaka. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The first thing that the government needs is to restore its...
A vendor is seen busy making traditional bread at a tandoor in Lahore. — APP/FileLAHORE: Things move far too slowly compared to the tall promises...
The IMF dictates its terms based on our past performance
We are facing multiple problems that include unemployment, industrial decline, high energy costs
A representational image shows a tax written on a calculator. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Tax officials around the world have the authority to scrutinize...
A representative image of forex trading. —AFPLAHORE: Survival is the name of the game. The state is making efforts to survive, businesses are...
Despite moving in the right direction, our country is not geared up for higher growth
Representational image. — Unsplash LAHORE: There is no use pointing out policy flaws as those that matter are fully aware of the shortcomings and...
Pakistan saw three good administrators during its 77-year history
We need foreign inflows to service our foreign debt
Food is one common commodity that is consumed by all 240 million Pakistanis
This screengrab taken on March 5, 2024, from Pakistan Expo 2020’s YouTube video posted on October 5, 2021, shows Muhammad Aurangzeb speaking about...
The Federal Board of Revenue office. — APP/FileLAHORE: The state seems terrified of annoying traders and has again come up with a scheme that...
This photo shows US dollar banknotes. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Breaking laws, rules, and regulations is not taken seriously by our entrepreneurs. In...
A person can be seen holding notes of Pakistani currency Rupee in his hands. — AFPLAHORE: Pakistan’s main problem is the economy, which requires...
Internally displaced people gather to receive free food. — AFP/FileLAHORE: We understate poverty and overlook the misery that people are passing...
The rupee, which was declining on a daily basis against the dollar, started recovering rapidly from over Rs320 to Rs270
All the taxes that have been imposed or are to be imposed in the next budget have been approved or dictated by the IMF
CPEC has not yet been operational through the Gwadar seaport even after a decade
A shopkeeper waits for customers at a market in Karachi on January 10, 2022. — AFP LAHORE: The miseries that people in general face in daily life...
Issues such as climate change, gender parity, unemployment, and poverty, are on back burner
There are dozens of non-taxed or undertaxed avenues, each capable of generating many times more taxes than the salaried class
A representational image shows a tax written on a calculator. — AFP/FileLAHORE: No government has ever been able to bring traders under the proper...
This photo shows US dollar banknotes. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Venture capital is a relatively new player in Pakistan's burgeoning startup ecosystem,...
IMF headquarters in Washington. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan is in such a vulnerable state that when our leaders meet global luminaries, they...
Digital wallets in Pakistan have conveniently reduced the need for carrying debit/credit cards all the time.—China Daily/File LAHORE: Digital...
Some women do get decent jobs like teachers, nurses, bankers, or in industry. However, they are not more than 10 percent
It is time that we start giving importance to the downtrodden
There is no check on the authority of the chief minister
