Risk-based approach: Nations are operating within a comprehensive international framework that deters financial crime and terrorism in the first place; detects it when it happens and disrupts the activities of…
Never in my life did I think that I would have a kind word to say about a figure in religious garb. But then our bankrupt politics can make even…
A Banker in New York aims a vase at his wife. She ducks and is not hit. She calls the police. The husband is arrested and spends five years in…
A lot has been said and written about the state of the economy in the last few years. Independent economists and domestic and international professional organisations like the State Bank…
I am surprised to read the PML-N’s defence of the failed economic policies of George W Bush, advocating their implementation in Pakistan. Zubair Mohmmad in his article titled ‘Bushonomics and…
On June 8 the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) issued a brief statement on the country’s economic situation, while announcing no change in its policy rate for the next two…
While delivering a keynote speech on the state of Pakistan’s economy at a seminar organised by the Management Association of Pakistan in Lahore on March 1, 2012, the governor of…
The Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh claimed a 4 percent growth rate for the economy while attending the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF) spring meeting in April while on 26…
All and sundry continue to protest the lending behaviour of commercial banks and their large `spreads` (the difference between the interest rates on their lending and the interest rate that…
With the fifth most turbulent year (2012) in Pakistan’s economic history drawing to a close yesterday, the year 2013 has just begun. Far from being a fresh start, there are…
