Budget for fiscal year 2019-20 envisages a major outlay for industry, particularly export oriented sectors, and is a measure of the success of Razzak Dawood, the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Commerce and Industries, to convince Prime Minister Imran Kh

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Budget for fiscal year 2019-20 was reminiscent of measures favoured by previous finance ministers particularly Ishaq Dar: it fully met the precise prior International Monetary Fund (IMF) condition of achieving a primary deficit of 0.6 percent of Gross Dom

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"What did you think of the budget?"

The budget 2019-20 read out by Hammad Azhar the Minister of State for Revenue adheres to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) prior condition of the primary deficit at 0.6 percent of GDP: total deficit (3.15 trillion rupees) minus total markup (2.89

"Hafeez Sheikh got upstaged yet again!"

The budget 2019-20 read out by Hammad Azhar the Minister of State for Revenue adheres to the International Monetary Fund''s (IMF''s) prior condition of the primary deficit at 0.6 percent of GDP: total deficit (3.15 trillion rupees) minus total markup (2.8

The budget 2019-20 read out by Hammad Azhar the Minister of State for Revenue adheres to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) prior condition of the primary deficit at 0.6 percent of GDP: total deficit (3.15 trillion rupees) minus total markup (2.89

The budget 2019-20 read out by Hammad Azhar the Minister of State for Revenue adheres to the International Monetary Fund''''s (IMF''''s) prior condition of the primary deficit at 0.6 percent of GDP: total deficit (3.15 trillion rupees) minus total markup

"Can a technical person fool a non-technical person?"

Lack of ownership by the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Hafeez Sheikh is patently evident in the contents of the Economic Survey 2018-19 as it compares achievements with targets set not by the Khan administration but by the Shahid Khaqan Abba

Lack of ownership by the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance Dr Hafeez Sheikh is patently evident in the contents of the Economic Survey 2018-19 as it compares achievements with targets set not by the Khan administration but by the Shahid Khaqan Abba

Prime Minister Imran Khan while addressing the opening ceremony of the second Belt and Road initiative (BRI) summit in Beijing titled "Shaping a Brighter Future" reiterated his admiration for China in lifting 800 million Chinese out of poverty within a ma

An extremely harsh 2019-20 budget is the general expectation based on the 'prior' International Monetary Fund (IMF) condition to bring the primary deficit to 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from the current 1.9 claimed by the government (2.1 p

An extremely harsh 2019-20 budget is the general expectation based on the 'prior' International Monetary Fund (IMF) condition to bring the primary deficit to 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from the current 1.9 claimed by the government (2.1 p