The terrorist attack targeting Chinese working on the Dasu dam should serve as a wake-up call for everyone who matters in Pakistan.
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin sounded upbeat after talking to IMF officials to soften up their calls for stringent measures by Pakistan to fully...
Without going into the debate when the next elections will be held, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, for all practical purposes has given an...
The finance ministry babus and other government officials must be holding meetings behind closed doors in Islamabad to firm up proposals for the...
The fuss over who would lead the economic team and whether Pakistan should resume trade ties with India has exposed the poor thought process and...
Last year, a big petroleum crisis struck Pakistan when, all of a sudden, petrol disappeared from most of the filling stations across the country.
The defeat of Finance Minister Abdul Hafiz Sheikh in the senate elections at the hands of joint opposition candidate and former prime minister Yusuf...
A noisy debate has been raging between the government and its opponents as well as in the national and social media does Pakistan stand in combating...
Prime Minister Imran Khan keeps the nation updated on the achievements of his economic team through his twitter.
A few months back Iran dropped India from a major railway link connecting its strategic Chahabar deep sea port to its Zahedan province on border...
Prime Minister Imran Khan and members of his economic team regularly report weekly and monthly economic indicators to reassure the nation that the...
Prime Minister Imran Khan at the weekend tweeted a Reuters story on food inflation in India.
For low income countries like Pakistan, national savings are vital for the economic growth.
A joke has gone viral on social media to explain the government’s helplessness in controlling the price hike.
Prime Minister’s Advisor on Commerce Abdul Razaq Dawood last week reported a slight increase in the country’s exports for September.
The disease COVID-19 caused by the new coronavirus has not been eliminated, but it no longer dominates international news headlines.
Karachi, the financial lifeline of Pakistan, was hit by one of the worst floods in its history.
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has just returned from a highly important trip of China where he co-chaired the second round of China-Pakistan...
In literal sense, the government has declared victory in the first round of fight against the new coronavirus.
The government officially declared the asset details of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special assistants and advisers.
In his speech in the National Assembly after the passage of the budget, Prime Minister Imran Khan said the previous two political governments...
Aviation Minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan seems to have had no idea as to how the international community would react to his “startling” disclosure...
The PTI government has announced the second budget of its tenure setting several ambitious targets but the question is whether the economic targets...
The PTI government will announce the national budget for the fiscal year 2020-21 in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the entire...
Just weeks before announcement of the annual budget, the State Bank of Pakistan cut the policy rates –the fourth in the past two months- by 100...
Two days ago, Pakistan started easing the countrywide lockdown.Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the decision along with his top aides after...
Pakistani authorities seem to be now finally waking up to the growing danger of coronavirus which has claimed over 5,000 lives so far across the...
The threat of Pakistan being blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force has been hanging as a sword of Damocles over Pakistan for the past...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid high profile visit to Pakistan last week. He delivered a very strong speech on political issues of mutual...
The mistrust in the relations between Pakistan and the United States has markedly been overcome over the last one year and a half.
The recent spike in tensions between the United States and Iran should serve as a good opportunity for Pakistan to plan out its strategy to ensure...
The killing of Iranian’s Quds Force commander Qasem Suleimani in a US drone attack at the Baghdad airport has raised the specter of a new and...
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund last week approved the second tranche of $452.4 million after completing first review of the...
It was back in 1973 when the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics helped build Pakistan Steel Mills in Karachi – the first concrete...
The mistrust between Pakistan and the United States seems to have ebbed significantly in the wake of their close cooperation for the settlement of...
Hot on the heels of lavish praise by the International Monetary Fund for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government’s performance on the economic...
For Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, economy is the way of managing fiscal and trade deficit and controlling inflation but for a layperson, it is about how to...
Pakistan has come away with a lavish praise from the International Monetary Fund at the end of the first staff level review of the bailout package...
The World Bank President David Malpass arrived in Pakistan last week, and so did a high-level delegation from the International Monetary Fund .
The government is in a festive mood. The World Bank in its latest report has bracketed Pakistan among world’s top ten countries for ensuring ease...
A Pakistani delegation led by Revenue Minister Hammad Azhar will have reached Paris by the time this edition of this newspaper hits the newsstands.
Confronted with a big slowdown in economy, the pressure seems to be building up on the government to do something to generate economic activity to...
The Asian Development Bank’s assessment of Pakistan’s economy in its yearly outlook for Asia should not come as a surprise as the writing had...
A senior-level team of the International Monetary Fund has completed its first round of talks with the Pakistani authorities since the Fund...
The PTI has squarely blamed its predecessors for the economic mess and it was justified for it to a large extent, but it could no longer take...
Corruption is undoubtedly one of the major challenges faced by the country and needs to be tackled head on as it hampers economic development and...
Pakistan’s policy makers are overplaying the last week’s meeting of the United Nations Security Council , claiming that the moot called on the...
The Federal Board of Revenue is gearing up for a massive drive to bring in maximum people into the net and to raise tax collection.
