Edit in Daily Times, Mar 1, 2023In stark contravention to what our constitution teaches us, the sanctity of some lives matters more than others in this holy motherland. If not, three separate attacks sending shockwaves across Balochistan would have been enough to overwhelm the attention of lawmakers all of yesterday. However, business was as usual with the exception of sparse mentions here and there. Four coal miners were targetted in Khost; a Levies man was…
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report in The Morning, Feb 22, 2023*Claims opportunity to do business with foreign countries may also disappear**Says current tax policy is no normal tax policy but a rescue operationThe current tax policy in Sri Lanka is not a normal tax policy but a rescue operation, and any disruption to this process will result in Sri Lanka not being able to secure the International Monetary Fund (IMF) funding, which may also result in the opportunity to…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, January 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday sought the cooperation of provinces to eliminate terrorism that has reemerged in the country, and asked for support from the business community to make the National Energy Conservation Plan (NECP) a success. Presiding over a meeting on security, the PM emphasised the need for enhancing coordination among the federal and provincial institutions to wipe out terrorism from the country. “Terrorists…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 21, 2022During the last days of Ashraf Ghani’s government, high-ranking officials helped smuggle around $1 billion in cash and gold out of the country, Business Insider the American media company reported. The American media published a report on Tuesday, showing that during the last three months of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as districts were falling to the Taliban fighters one after another, smugglers with the help of government…
By Sabria Abdal in ToloNews, Dec 8, 2022 ,The US special envoy for Afghanistan, Thomas West, met with Afghan leaders and members of the Afghan business community during a recent visit to the United Arab Emirates. Referring to his meeting with Afghan businesspeople, West said he discussed “continuing challenges as well as progress achieved for bankers, construction interests, entrepreneurs, airlines, and more.” “Banking transactions remain a challenge that requires improvements in the Taliban’s financial and…
The PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz), occupying nearly all economic-related ministries, barring commerce and industries and production – with both highly dependent on finance for launching any programme – have been reiterating since April, that their taking economically extremely challenging decisions, necessitated by the state of the economy they inherited, has cost them considerable popular support. The announcement of the relief package on 28 February 2022 by the then Prime Minister Imran Khan, envisaging a 10…