External debt is one of the common elements found in developing countries to finance their deficits. Pakistan is no exception! It has become heavily indebted over the last five years. A major portion ...
International financial institutions have been warning Pakistani rulers of low level of private sector investment in the country owing to increasing circular debt, power sector issues, unsatisfactory ...
The outlook for Pakistan’s budget for the next financial year is challenging. At present, macroeconomic policies are overly expansionary and fundamental reforms to resolve the economy’s ...
Last year, a conference titled “Doing Business in Pakistan” was held in London, which was organised by the UK Trade and Investment Board and the Pakistan High Commission. Its main aim was ...
It is generally accepted that the declining trend in poverty in Pakistan during the 1970s and 1980s was reversed in the 1990s. According to official estimates, the incidence of poverty increased from ...
Given its fragile balance of payments position and urgent need to boost industrial production, Pakistan needs to significantly increase its mobilisation of foreign resources. However, long-term ...
Sarfaraz Khan, a low-paid sanitary worker, may have to contribute more to the exchequer in case of expected upward revision of taxes, but he has little sway to influence the shaping of next ...
Governance is generally conceived as the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority in the public and private spheres to manage a country’s affair at all levels to improve the ...
After assuming responsibility as Finance Minister and subsequently as Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, did not tire of informing the nation that Pakistan had broken the IMF begging bowl and the State ...
The Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) was established in 1998. It was expected to take on the challenge of developing small and medium enterprises in Pakistan. SMEDA's mission ...
The now defunct Ministry of Education had announced a national education policy in 2009 with the usual fanfare attending such occasions. The purpose of the policy was to chalk out a national strategy ...
Since its inception in 1947, Pakistan has relied on the private sector as the primary producer of goods and services. The early 1970s, however, witnessed a crippling shift towards a command economy ...
President Asif Zardari may not be able to find the time from 'other engagements to realise that this is an enormously critical moment in Pakistans troubled economic and political history. He is, ...
Pakistans public schools systems deteriorating infrastructure, falling educational standards and distorted educational system impact mostly, if not entirely, on the countrys poor, thus widening the ...
The recent energy crisis has greatly subdued the country's economic growth. For sustainable development, Pakistan needs energy security that requires striking a balance between affordability, demand ...
Our Prime Minister, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, is not a man given to deep thoughts on serious economic issues. He is completely at sea if financial or economic implications emerge from what appear to ...
Notwithstanding the fact that feudalism and the mindset that educated urbanised men keep appearing display in opposing all forms of discrimination against women, the lives of girls and women in ...
A strong economy requires a cutting edge financial system that inspires confidence and efficiently provides a wide range of financial services to households and businesses alike; and capital markets ...
Since late 2007, Pakistan has been faced with a set of serious issues: An unstable political climate, increasing domestic security threats, diplomatic pressure from the US, and an economy on the ...
It would be premature at this juncture to guesstimate the extent and scale of agricultural losses caused by the floods in Sindh, as economists believe that this exercise will take at least another ...
To a varying degree, corruption exists in almost all countries. However, the degree to which it impacts the common peoples lives and increases poverty is directly proportional to the level of this ...
The separation of East Pakistan in 1971 may have been instrumental in raising the demand for provincial autonomy in West Pakistan. This demand became an integral part of intense political discourse ...
As it struggles to contain a growing insurgency, Pakistan has aroused concern that it is a failing or fracturing state. One aspect of the international community's response has been to place new ...
Several factors have been identified as the main contributors of poverty in Pakistan. Poor governance coupled with economic and social factors have played a significant role in widening the gap ...
The macroeconomic problems faced by Pakistan today are the result of poor economic management and deteriorating governance over the last two decades. Between 1988 and 1998, Pakistan negotiated three ...
As Pakistanis discuss the major causes and crippling effects of the worst ever power crisis in the nation's history, "loadshedding" and "circular debt" are two key phrases that have entered the ...
The Police Act 1861 was legislated by the British in the aftermath of the First War of Independence. The British, naturally at that time wanted to establish a police force that would suit the purpose ...
The countrys top economic advisory body consisting of eminent economists, former finance ministers and other prominent personages has slammed the governments budget strategy, terming it anti-poor and ...
The Federal budget for the next financial year was presented in the National Assembly by the Finance Minister Dr. Abdul Hafeez Sheikh. He looked untroubled by the vociferous slogans raised by members ...
For the purpose of the federal budget, governance is defined as the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a countrys economic and social resources for development. Good governance ...
Monday, 20 May, 2013
May 14, 2013, 3:44 pmECP announces results of 254 National Assembly seats
May 18, 2013PML-N warns PM Khoso crossing limits
May 14, 2013Won’t speak against Pakistan
May 14, 2013, 4:03 pmSherry Rehman quits as Ambassador to US
May 15, 2013, 6:10 pmUK police to take action on Altaf's speech: Thomson
