• Investment lowest in 50 years • Growth rate remained at 2.4% • Industrial sector grows mere 1.21%

Economic Survey reveals 73% surge in tax losses, fuelling IMF dispute amid ongoing negotiations

Promises Rs4.1tr revenue boost in 3 years by lowering tax rates, removing exemptions

Promise Rs4.1tr revenue boost by lowering taxes, removing exemptions

Rs932 billion or 27% of the total national outlay will be funded by taking foreign loans

Now there is a proposal to increase the number of beneficiaries in the range 9.6 million to 9.7 million people

Competing forces stand in way of reducing cost of doing business

Disagreement persists over ‘irrational demand’ for high taxes on salaried class

Chief ministers of all four provinces are also the constitutional members of the NEC

Proposal has potential to add hundreds of billions of rupees to tax receipts