Tax reform, not aid please
The BBC has reported that a group of British MPs have asked the British “government to withhold extra aid to Pakistan unless the country does more to gather taxes from…
Everything’s almost free in Spain’s parallel barter economy
It can be argued that extra-judicial interventions first by Ghulam Mohammad as Governor General in 1951 and later by military regimes and disregard of the Constitution - facilitated by either…
At a precipice
Pakistan stands devastated today due to unprecedented massive corruption. According to a recent report by Transparency International Pakistan the last five years have been the worst in the history of…
Khoso’s tasks
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is facing huge shortage in revenue collection despite resorting to all sorts of negative tactics and highhandedness, destroying the already fragile economy. The FBR…
Latvia presses for euro despite unease among population
Latvia is looking to exchange its lats for euros starting in 2014 as the small Baltic nation last week officially submitted its bid to become the 18th member of the…
Lively performance of National Bank of Pakistan
Performance, profit and its distribution by the National Bank of Pakistan, for its 64th year ended December 30, 2012, gives a pleasant surprise to all interested in work sheet of…
Shattered dreams
Apart from being the day of the Lahore Resolution, March 23 has, and should have, another significance for us. On that day, in 1956, the country, hitherto governed under the…
The last budget
The outgoing government presented its fifth and last budget on June 1, 2012. Since the year 2012-13 was an election year, the intention of the government was totally inconsistent with…
Good on intentions…
Part of being a concerned citizen is to be well informed and, as I belong to the 18-35 age demographic that is going to cast its vote for the first…
Texas grid braces for possible power company restructuring
The Texas power grid, already struggling to attract new generation to avoid rolling outages as demand grows, now may have to cope with a potential restructuring of the largest owner…
