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DOES anyone even take the finance ministry seriously anymore? With each passing year, this question becomes less and less rhetorical, as our...
Facts about 1971 tragedy of East Pakistan DISINTEGRATION of Pakistan in 1971 was a great tragedy. Apart from bad governance and egocentrism of the...
THE significance of older people has been recognised by the UN, which has declared 2021-2030 as the Decade of Healthy Ageing, seeking to lessen...
Pakistan’s external debt stock of over $125 billion dollars has brought it to the brink of default. With its economy heavily dependent on imports,...
Late last month Henry Kissinger celebrated his 100th birthday. Kissinger of course served as US national security adviser and secretary of state...
Social media’s 3D role in contemporary politics OVER the years, digital advancement has transformed the manner in which political process is...
Several players in the nascent domestic information technology (IT) industry have been calling for increased government support through tax...
May 9 vandalism is under the scanner. Army’s top brass has once again reiterated its resolve to bring to book culprits who stormed national and...
Last week I wrote of the possible triggers which led to the rise of Imran Khan and where all and how he seemed pushed into making strategic errors...
ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) on Thursday notified a reduction in the prices of Regasified Liquified Natural Gas (RLNG)...
KARACHI: The foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) further fell by $179 million due to external debt servicing during the...
ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) tax exemptions reached an all-time high of Rs2.239 trillion in the outgoing fiscal year, up 51 per...
“Oooops.” “It was the unkindest cut of all I tell you.” “Ali Zaidi and Imran Ismail at Tareen’s…but the question is which Tareen?”...
ISLAMABAD: The economic survey for 2022-23 showed on Thursday the country’s total public debt reached Rs59.24 trillion at the end of March, with...
ISLAMABAD: The fiscal year 2023 was not very different from the previous many years as the external account recorded a dismal performance owing to...
By Sardar Khan Niazi The figures are not on the side of environmental protection. Human activity has wiped out 60% of the vertebrate animal...
ISLAMABAD: The investment-to-GDP ratio in the outgoing 2022-23 stood at 13.6 per cent, lowest among the regional countries, according to the...
A COUPLE of years back, a friend’s son spent the summer interning at a bank. Over the eight weeks he was there, he updated a couple of ‘industry...
“If you’ve been feeling confused and as though everything is impacting on you all at the same time, this is not a personal, private experience,”...
Every society is an amalgam of ideas, interests and proclivities which are not always similar in nature. In fact, more often, they reflect the vast...
The government’s decision to close markets and commercial centres at 8pm daily to conserve energy has sparked opposition from traders. Energy...
Away from the scramble for the illusionary budgetary resources, there are some creative, innovative and futuristic initiatives happening...
ISLAMABAD: The government conceded on Thursday average inflation will surpass its budgetary target and remain at 29 per cent for 2022-23 owing to...
ISLAMABAD: Calling acquisition of energy a real challenge in the present era, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday expressed confidence that...
KARACHI: Amid contraction in big industry production, a large number of direct and indirect workers lost jobs mainly in the textile and auto...
ISLAMABAD: The telecom sector remained a significant source of revenue generation for the national exchequer contributing Rs327 billion in the...
The Ministry of IT & Telecom (MoITT) recently made Pakistan’s first AI policy available for public consultation. The policy document offers a...
FINANCE Minister Ishaq Dar could have kept the Pakistan Economic Survey 2022-23 unveiling ceremony quite short. ‘We blame everyone and everything...
ON the face of it, closing shops early is a sound idea. Not only would the move help save energy during the stifling summer heat, it can also bring...
THE recent, turbulent political and economic events are manifestations of Pakistan’s once-in-a-generation polycrisis — multiple crises...
Infrastructure: Pakistan’s unending energy crisis and high-end user costs have enormously damaged industrial growth and diversification,...
Dangerous consequences of using religion in politics AS a fifty-one-year-old female Pakistani-origin journalist residing in the UK, I have seen the...
AN unmistakably forceful message has been sent out that puts to rest any notion of a house divided. The military top brass appears to be of one...
The National Economic Council has set an economic growth target of 3.5 per cent for the upcoming fiscal year, while also acknowledging a population...
Election timeframes: A constitutional perspective CONSTITUTION is the supreme document of the land. All state departments derive their authority...
Economic Survey 2022-23, unlike previous surveys, raises more questions of competence as opposed to credibility, with poor quality of economic...
• Industry contracts by 3pc, GDP growth a mere 0.3pc • Finance minister hints at expansionary measures in today’s budget • Dar says political...
The decline of democratic legitimacy IN Pakistan, the process of state building and nation building has been a complex endeavor, closely...
The government is set to present its annual budget to Parliament later today, aiming to meet the requirements of the International Monetary Fund...
KARACHI: Amid 38 per cent inflation and uncertain exchange rates, stakeholders have ruled out a pro-consumer budget for 2023-24. The government...
The Supreme Court has praised political parties’ attempts to come to an agreement on holding national and provincial assembly elections on the...
Living in an age of hyper-connectivity, news about things happening in one part of the world travels within seconds to the other part. France is...
Pakistan is still rebuilding from massive floods that killed over 1,700 people and ruined over two million homes. Many communities are still...
In our current era, the well-being of our planet hangs in the balance, making it imperative to discover creative solutions to combat plastic...
While repeatedly failing in my attempts to tell an untold tale and finish a book that I have always wanted to write and make public, for the past...
https://arab.news/vrtgs The Americans and the Chinese faced off last weekend at the Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore. They...
Come winter, Lahore swaps its yellow-green hues for a decided, suffocating grey. Since 2018, smog has become characteristic of the city and its...
Liu Qiang The United States has been putting immense pressure on China by imposing economic restrictions and increasing military presence in and...
Katerina Kolozova Since December 2019, the European Union has been defining itself and the broader continent as “geopolitical”. Arms of the...