FM Bilawal Holds ‘Productive’ Meeting With US Secretary Of State
Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari held a meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken during his maiden visit to New ...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Tag: IMF
A Failing Imran Khan Seeks To Snatch Victory From The Jaws Of Defeat
Faced with an almost certain defeat in a vote of no confidence that was supposed to happen on the 1st ...
PM Faces Backlash For Saying Knowing Prices Of Essential Goods Not His Job
Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing criticism from opposition leaders as well as citizens on social media for saying that ...
SC Orders FBR To Explain Pending Tax Revenue Claims Worth Rs.3.5 Trillion
Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial has directed the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to respond to claims that ...
Petroleum Price Hike Fuels Condemnation From Opposition
Opposition members have blasted the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government for raising the price of petroleum products, saying that this hike ...
What Did Imran Khan Accomplish In Beijing?
As the Prime Minister boarded PAK 002 bound for Beijing, what was on his mind? We can only speculate. Once ...
IMF Approves $1bn Disbursement For Pakistan, Seeks Further Taxation
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board has approved a $1 billion disbursement to Pakistan after the country passed its ...
With Passage Of SBP Bill, Pakistan Now Cleared For Sixth Review Of IMF Loan Program
With the controversial State Bank Pakistan (SBP) Amendment Bill 2021 approved in the Upper House of Parliament, Pakistan has now ...
Opposition Faces Defeat As SBP Bill Passed By Senate After Chairperson Sanjrani’s Tie-Breaker Vote
The Senate has approved the State Bank Pakistan (SBP) Amendment Bill 2021, following a tiebreaker vote by Senate Chairman Sadiq ...
Pakistan’s Public Sector Needs a Course Correction
I had a busy professional life until 2019; after that, while I remained technically employed, I found myself having ample ...
Better IMF Deal Scuttled After Finance Team Change In 2019: Former Finance Secretary Younus Dagha
Former Finance Secretary Younus Dagha, in his comments on the SBP Amendment Bill, has claimed to have made a significantly ...
جنوری کی آمدآمد
کیا پارٹی ختم ہو چکی؟غور کیجئے۔ گزشتہ بدھ کو قومی اسمبلی کے سپیکر اسد قیصر کو عجلت میں طے شدہ ...
Come January!
Is the party over? Consider. Last Wednesday, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Asad Qaisar, had to hurriedly adjourn the ...
Economic Meltdown Coupled With Mounting Debt
That which is titled “Public debt (Gross),” and also commonly known as Sovereign Debt, is the result of a country’s ...
Sinking ship
Imran Khan has advised cabinet members not to stray too far from Islamabad for the next three months. “The move ...
Awami Workers Party Slams Govt’s Announcement Of ‘Austerity Package’
Press Release The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has slammed the government’s announcement of an ‘austerity package’ that will subject the ...
The New SBP Bill: When Central Bank Autonomy Goes So Far That It Challenges State Sovereignty
The current International Monetary Fund (IMF) program has been in limbo, and for its revival, the PTI government has agreed ...
Agreement With The IMF Remains Elusive; New Details Emerge Of Bypassed Legislative Procedures For SBP Bill 2021
A legislative process which was bypassed for the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Amendment Bill has placed yet more question ...
The Rest And The West
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator ...
Chinese Foreign Minister Urges IMF, World Bank To Help Afghanistan, Says Taliban Eager To Engage With The International Community
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has urged the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resume financing support to ...
Technical Talks: IMF Wants Pakistan To Impose Income Taxes Worth Rs225 Billion
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to impose income taxes worth around Rs225 billion and has raised questions ...
Arif Naqvi: A Victim Of Sovereign Impunity
The world is divided by silos of impunity in which states determine the rules and their actions are defined by ...
PTI’s Experiments With Economic Management Have Failed
It all began with celebratory fireworks, couched in the vows to quickly turn things around because they were ‘clean,’ which ...
Pakistan’s Assistance In Evacuation Of IMF Staff Draws Praise
Pakistan has received praise from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for providing “exceptional assistance” in the evacuation of its staff ...
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Court Directs Govt To Stop ‘Harassing’ PTI Leaders Ahead Of Long March
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has directed the...
Almost 4 Years Of Russia-Ukraine War: Is Putin Now A Cornered Tiger?
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has...