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Awareness programme about mountains concludes

A three-day programme on raising awareness of the importance of mountains organised by the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation (PTDC) has concluded with a purposeful hike on Trail 5 of Margalla Hills, Islamabad. PTDC…

Of pandemic, environment and humility

Punishment it was. Punishment it will be. Pandemic was almost a revenge of nature on human arrogance. As the World Environment Day on 5th of June states “Make peace with…

Pakistan should leave IMF programme

Pakistan should come out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme, pursue active economic diplomacy, and usher in deep non-neoliberal institutional, organizational, and market reforms, for which the PM should…

IMF Programme well on track

A staff mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded its visit to Pakistan last week; it was all praise for authorities for over-performing on first quarter targets under the…

Implementing the IMF-supported programme

FOLLOWING several boom-and-bust cycles over the last 25 years, Pakistan’s economy is once again in a challenging situation. Public-sector deficits and losses in state-owned companies ballooned in recent years as successive…

Risks To IMF Programme

Risks to IMF programme

In our last article (‘A budget for stabilisation’, June 13), while terming the budget as helpful to stabilize the economy, we had concluded as follows: “The budget is a good…

PU`s 27 PhD, 33 MPhil/MS programmes get the chop

The HigherEducation Commission (HEC) has found gross violations of its regulations by the Punjab University and directed its administration to immediately stop new admissions to PhD and MPhil/ MS programmes.…

Light-touch Tax Environment

Light-touch tax environment

The government is justifiably ecstatic at the IMF’s, and now Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s, endorsement of its claims of having achieved a fair degree of macro-economic stability reflected in…