The federal and provincial governments have begun to develop blueprints of their budgets for FY16. An examination of the vast deviation in the past...
Mr Imtiaz Alam Hanfi, who served as governor State Bank of Pakistan from August, 1988 to June, 1993, with a one-year break necessitated by his...
An average citizen must be totally confused about the state of the economy after hearing, on the one hand, the official/IMF pronouncements that...
At present, the State Bank of Pakistan is legally autonomous but operationally subservient to the Ministry of Finance. From the point of view of...
The Ministry of Finance, State Bank of Pakistan and IMF would like us to believe that fiscal consolidation has taken place, a prudent monetary...
There is high unemployment amidst a low rate of economic growth in Pakistan, plenty of poverty amidst pockets of prosperity, a poor state of the...
During the last four decades, every government that came to power pretended that it was there to serve the people of Pakistan. Every finance...
