THERE are at least five aspects of the stance adopted by the international community in the recent India-Pakistan conflict ...

AFTER being questioned on pre-budget claims, the finance minister clarified in a press conference that the proposed budget ...

IN a knee-jerk reaction to the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, the campaign for new dams has been resuscitated. The ...

Given the cost of living, the tax exemption limit should have been doubled. A basic home-cooked meal for a family of seven ...

The first baseline survey was conducted in December 2003, and it revealed that the overall poverty ratio of five districts of ...

THE passage of a new law criminalising child marriage within the confines of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) might be ...

Similarly, small-ticket social sector schemes can be hived off to provincial development plans while freeing up capital for ...

We can characterise the FY26 budget as well-intentioned fiscal austerity, but overall, it does little to ...

Consultation aimed at finalising three names each for posts of Chief Election Commissi­oner, members of commission from Sindh ...

In the FY25 Budget, a hue and cry emerged as the government had withdrawn the proposal to impose a 25 per cent sales tax on ...

Meanwhile, the largest democratic party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, appears unsure of its own reform agenda and vision ...

“The government is celebrating macroeconomic stabilisation, but the deeper structural cracks in the economy remain ...