The state needs to formulate policies for job creation in sectors like manufacturing, services, and agriculture
Workers operates a machine preparing fabric at the Kohinoor Textile Mills in Lahore on July 20, 2023. — AFPLAHORE: In these tough times for...
In this image, a man can be seen working in a textile factory in Pakistan. — AFP/FileLAHORE: A truly competitive economy empowers its...
Demonstrators in Bara, Pakistan, protest against new taxes on July 7, 2024. — AFPLAHORE: Pakistan introduced strict taxation measures in its June...
A representational image showing a labour carrying a sugar bag. — AFP/fileLAHORE: Pakistan faces a critical economic challenge: stagnant labour...
A labourer bends over as he carries packs of textile fabric on his back to deliver to a nearby shop in a market in Karachi, Pakistan June 24, 2022....
Traders, workers, and customers gather at a wholesale fruit market in Lahore. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistani planners are so occupied with keeping...
A labourer bends over as he carries packs of textile fabric on his back to deliver to a nearby shop in a market in Karachi, Pakistan June 24, 2022....
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Prime ministers in Pakistan usually blame the poor performance of their government on their...
A man counts Pakistani rupee notes at a currency exchange shop in Peshawar on September 12, 2023. — ReutersLAHORE: The high development budget has...
Representational image of a power grid. — Canva/fileLAHORE: The decision to reconsider the increase in power tariffs for lifeline consumers shows...
A woman checks rice prices at a main wholesale market in Karachi. — AFP/fileLAHORE: The manner in which businesses have reacted to the budget...
Pakistani carpenter wears a protective mask as he works at a carpentry workshop. — AFP/file LAHORE: Pakistan is facing a strange employment...
Students wave national flags at the mausoleum Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah during Independence Day celebrations in Karachi on August 14, 2023....
A labourer bends over as he carries packs of textile fabric on his back to deliver to a nearby shop in a market in Karachi, Pakistan June 24, 2022....
A dairy farmer pours milk in a steel drum. — PPI/FileLAHORE: The success of punitive measures incorporated in this year’s budget largely depends...
Flood victims gather to receive food handout in a camp following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan on September 14, 2022. —...
Representational image of various stats and indicators relating to budget. — AFP/File LAHORE: The budget has finally passed with the government...
Representatives of Shirkat Gah’s Women Political Forum from Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh during a press conference at the...
A representational image showing people shop at a market in Lahore. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The mindset of our businesses has not changed from the...
This image shows the consumers buying fresh vegetables from a local market. — AFP/FileLAHORE: As the budget has to be passed before June 30,...
A representational image of young people working in a company. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistan remains a low-value and low-tech economy as...
Traders, workers, and customers gather at a wholesale fruit market in Lahore on October 16, 2022, which also marks the ‘World Food Day.’ —...
A representational image showing people buying pulses and grains at a wholesale market. — AFP/File LAHORE: As the budget debate starts in the...
People throng at the Bohri Bazaar in Saddar, Karachi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Development in Pakistan is hostage to the situation in Karachi compared...
Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb presenting the Federal Budget 2024-2025 before the National Assembly in Islamabad on...
A representational image showing men distributing food to people in Karachi on May 2, 2020. — AFPLAHORE: Poverty is linked with the level of...
A boy walks past a sidewalk money exchange stall decorated with pictures of banknotes in Karachi on September 30, 2021. — ReutersLAHORE: Economic...
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is presenting budget 2024-25 in the National Assembly on June 12, 2024. — APPLAHORE: The federal budget has...
No new tax has been levied in budget for next fiscal year, says Punjab finance minister
A representational image showing a young girl carrying an infant. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: The Pakistan Economic Survey 2023-24 is silent on...
Our problem is that our GDP continues to grow, but the tax-to-GDP ratio remains stagnant even if we increase our revenues by above 30 per cent...
A representational image showing a money exchange broker counting Rs5,000 Pakistani rupee notes. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The government is having a...
People shop at a market in Lahore, Pakistan on April 30, 2022. — AFPLAHORE: Business owners are asking for concessions that they know cannot be...
People are buying vegetables from a vendor at the Fruit and Vegetables Market in Islamabad. — Online/FileLAHORE: The problems faced by the economy...
An employee counts Pakistani rupee notes at a bank in Peshawar, on August 22, 2023. — ReutersLAHORE: For several decades we have seen that...
A currency broker stands near his booth, which is decorated with pictures of currency notes, while dealing with customers, along a road in Karachi,...
A shopkeeper uses a calculator while selling spices and grocery items along a shop in Karachi. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: The economy cannot be run on...
An undated image of consumers buying fresh vegetables from a local vendor. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The miseries faced by Pakistanis are not only because...
A vendor holds a Pakistani flag as he waits for customers beside his stall alongside a street in Islamabad. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Populist leaders...
Headquarters of the Federal Board of Revenue in Islamabad. — APP/FileLAHORE: Customs duties are a major source of revenue for the Federal Board of...
A person can be seen holding notes of Pakistani currency Rupee in his hands. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Corruption contributes to instability and poverty...
People show their NICs to receive free bags of flour from a delivery truck at a distribution point in Lahore on March 20, 2023. — AFPLAHORE:...
A labourer bends over as he carries packs of textile fabric on his back to deliver to a nearby shop in a market in Karachi on June 24, 2022. —...
This picture released on February 9, 2023, shows Pakistan International Airlines aircraft parked inside a shade in Nur Khan Engineering Complex in...
People buy pulses and grains at a wholesale market. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The country is being run as a rudderless ship that is unable to reach its...
A representational image showing people at a busy market in Rawalpindi. — AFP/FileLAHORE: Pakistani planners, despite tall claims, are still shy...
A foreign currency dealer counts US dollar notes at a currency market in Karachi on July 19, 2022. — AFPLAHORE: Experts think the proposed revenue...
Pakistan suffers from one of the highest illicit trade in Asia amounting to 20% of the formal economy. — AFP/FileLAHORE: The entrepreneurial...
A man selling vegetables waits for customers at his makeshift stall at Empress Market in Karachi. — Reuters/FileLAHORE: We need a strong...
