No final agreement reached with IMF due to differences mainly on proposed increase in defence expenditure and tax cuts.

GILGIT: The protest led by traders and supported by political parties against the centre’s trade policies intensified on ...

The overall positive business sentiment must be harnessed through a disciplined approach to ensure lasting national growth ...

With rising mechanisation in agriculture and a slow-growing industrial sector, the wave of rural workers’ displacement may rise ...

While the SBP sandbox guidelines are a welcome move for untested financial service models, their success will likely be under ...

Without simultaneous progress on equity and institutional reform, Pakistan’s fiscal sustainability — and its broader economic ...

In such an allowance, the regulator has allowed the utility to embed lack of recoveries within the electricity tariff, charged to the consumer. Effectively, for 2023-24, the regulator allowed a margin ...

Real prosperity can only emerge when the state acts as a facilitator, not a hurdle, allowing markets and merit to drive the ...

To meet president of UN General Assembly, ambassadors of all five permanent members of Security Council and address OIC ...

WE are a strange nation! We ignore poets, writers and intellectuals when they are among us and when they depart ...

Of the many factors responsible for declining or stagnating crop yields, lack of research and development in, and ...

To set the budget on a well-defined strategic path, it is essential for Pakistan to convince the IMF against micromanaging ...