edit in Daily Times, August 17th, 2023People cheering on as vigilantes attacked a holy symbol perched upon a place of worship; hundreds of smug men vandalising cemetries and setting scores of houses on fire as helpless members of the law enforcement agencies tried to explain the supremacy of the law. This is not a raging war zone but a thriving medium-sized town in one of the fastest developing industrial centres in Pakistan. Tragic footages of…
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CPD: Bangladesh has the highest price for beef, rice and sugar in the developing and developed world
report in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 28, 2023Rice, sugar, soybean oil and beef are more expensive in Bangladesh than in other developing or developed countries, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). The think tank also found that at least 28 imported basic food items presently suffer a high incidence of tax. Whilst inflationary pressures had been growing in Bangladesh prior to the Russia-Ukraine war, the international crisis provided an excuse, where commodity prices that…
Report in The News, Feb 8, 2023KARACHI: Millions of dollars are being smuggled into Afghanistan from Pakistan every day, providing some support for the squeezed economy after the US and Europe denied the Taliban regime access to billions in foreign reserves. For Islamabad, the outflows are exacerbating a rapidly developing economic crisis, foreign media reported. Traders and smugglers are bringing as much as $5 million across the border daily, according to Muhammad Zafar Paracha, general…