Election before or after FY13 budget?
President Zardari flanked by his son Bilawal and Farzana Raja distributed cheques under the Waseela-i-Haq Sindh programme targeted to provide self-employment to 35,000 people between the ages of 19 to…
President Zardari flanked by his son Bilawal and Farzana Raja distributed cheques under the Waseela-i-Haq Sindh programme targeted to provide self-employment to 35,000 people between the ages of 19 to…
Apropos editorial 'A harmful trend in banking sector', I find it necessary to highlight some of the important and relevant missing links that need more attention and clarity. It seems…
Lately, economic performance under various regimes based on certain indicators is the current focus of debate in the community of analysts. However, economic indictors cannot be seen in isolation. Economy…
The energy sector also requires a fast-track deregulation, which should have happened yesterday. It requires a focused phased plan for power, gas, and oil sectors to streamline their supply chains…
The policy of controlled imports is working as monthly import bill is down to $5 billion (on average) over the last two months. However, the desired objective to bring the…
The budget passed by the incumbent government has a strong implicit stamp of Pakistan Muslim League-N’s (PML-N’s) archetype financial czar, Ishaq Dar. There are inherent anti-documentation and anti-export/anti-manufacturing biases, which…
Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Ghulam Sarwar Khan recently revealed that the combined annual losses of Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) and Sui Southern Gas Company Limited…
Textile industry has witnessed an unprecedented growth as depicted by an increase of 22% in exports in FY21 as compared to FY20 and 15% when compared to FY19. The resulting…
COTTON: Prices remained surprisingly tensile last week as demand slowly but steadily rose. Data collected by PAR shows that Al-Karam textiles, Gadoon, Rafique SPG mills and Interloop textiles made significant…
Cotton: Higher prices of the newer cotton crop in the market have already started weighing down profits for textile set-ups in the country- as depicted by the quarterly results of…