Op-Ed

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Ashraf Mehmood Wathra has unveiled a five-year financial strategy, SBP Vision-2020, to maintain financial...

The present government is sincere in doing something for this nation, but does not know from where to start. The...

Pakistan is expecting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to approve a $502 million loan in mid-September after it ensured the...

World Bank official Sri Mulyani Indrawati, during her recent visit to Pakistan, counted various challenges facing the country and opportunities...

The IMF has projected 4.5 percent growth in the Pakistani economy during the current fiscal year, thanks to macroeconomic stability,...

A news report appearing in the media largely went unnoticed. The secretary of the Economic Affairs Division has informed the...

According to prestigious US magazine Forbes, Pakistan has the potential to become global leader and has urged the US businessmen...

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has stressed the need for collective efforts to confront the challenges of terrorism, energy and economy...

The culture of forming committees on pressing issues is the best option for the government to delay any solution. Textile...

The traders across the country held a successful shutter-down strike to protest against the imposition of withholding tax on bank...

The financial discipline of the country is hostage to status quo. The country has been facing crisis after crisis since...

The Pakistan Software Houses Association has rejected the imposition of 8 percent withholding tax on service providers, saying the step...

It is not due to lack of funds, but lack of ability and capacity of the policymakers to achieve acceptable...

According to a report issued by a western research agency, risks for the foreign investors are very high in Pakistan...

The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has decided to keep the SBP policy rate unchanged at 6.5 percent in the...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If action is imprudent, the reaction will also be imprudent...

Iran has been planning to launch oil and gas projects worth $185 billion by 2020 after successfully signing a nuclear...

The country has been facing trade deficit for a long time, but halfhearted efforts on the part of the policy...

The government has imposed a set of new tariffs on electricity bills, putting the already repressed economy in disarray and...

Pakistan and China are heading towards another milestone in the history of cordial relations. This time the energy starved Pakistan...