Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The Nawaz Sharif government will seriously consider importing 1,000MW electricity from India as part of its short to medium term strategy to end loadshedding. On an immediate basis, different options are under ...

Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is unlikely to achieve the revised tax collection target of Rs2,050 billion till June 30 due to the infighting within the tax collection machinery, official sources said on Monday. The ...

Sunday, May 19, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: To steer the economy out of the existing morass, major changes are expected after PML (N) government will be sworn in within a couple of weeks. Doors can be shown to the top guns of the Finance Ministry, the State Bank of ...

Friday, May 17, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The government has given all concerned chiefs of the respective sections of the Planning and Development Division five days to prepare the 10th Five-Year Plan (2013-18) so that the caretaker government can present it to ...

Friday, May 17, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The earstwhile PPP-led government broke all records of piling up public debt during last five years since total public debt jumped by staggering Rs7.10 trillion between 2007-8 and March 2013 – a level that no government be ...

Thursday, May 16, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: In a strangely timed major policy shift, the caretaker government has ordered the Planning Commission to revive the 10th Five-Year Plan in the next 15 days, which will be presented to the incoming PML-N led government by ...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: The Short Messaging Service (SMS) for verification of voters list launched by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), in collaboration with Nadra and telecom companies, received over 55 million hits and generated ...

Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso has approved a summary to grant an extension in the tenure of chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Ansar Javed till June 30, 2013, sources said. Ansar Javed was due to be retired ...

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: PML-N Senator Ishaq Dar is expected to be the next finance minister and he has also started acting like one. He has asked the concerned ministries and divisions to send budget proposals directly to him through informal ...

Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Mehtab Haider
ISLAMABAD: Ansar Javed, chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), on Monday informed caretaker Prime Minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso that the tax machinery will focus on four key areas, including the rationalisation of tax rates ...