A landmark judgement by SC
In a landmark judgement delivered on December 10, 2013, the Supreme Court of Pakistan held imposition of nine percent additional sales tax on supply of CNG (Compressed natural gas) as…
View Point: Musharraf should face the court with courage
Now that the reality of facing treason trial has dawned on him, General Pervez Musharraf is getting more and more desperate, and using all methods foul to fight his way…
Managing debt
At the outset, this is not another article on the size of the national debt; enough said already on that, except no amount of fantastic imagination can come up with…
Privatizing engineering industrial units-
The government plans to privatise, fully or partially, through different modes, 68 state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and has selected 32 units and assets to be divested on priority, for which necessary…
Circular debt genie again out of the bottle
After resolution of around Rs 500 billion circular debt earlier in July this year, the much-dreaded inter-corporate power sector circular debt has again reached over Rs 225 billion within the…
Rupee and growing Indebtedness
The single most damning charge that was hurled by opposition parties against the PPP-led coalition government during the run up to the May 11 general election was not corruption nor…
Developing media for economic development
While plenty of media development work has been done, its scope has been rather limited. At one end, media schools at different universities across Pakistan have focused on the vocational…
Pakistan and Iran: new goalposts
Pakistan is fortunate to have Iran as a strong and considerate neighbour. Although at times the relationship becomes tense mainly due to events that are mostly related to factors that…
US Treasuries seen weakening in 2014 but rout unlikely
Investors who bet heavily on Treasuries took a beating in 2013, and as the Fed winds down its bond buying, they face the risk of a second straight losing year,…
Cotton challenges
Can Pakistan's textile industry take advantage of the recent European Union's opening of the market for textiles? That this has been done by the present government is laudable but are…
