Has served two stints in the past, one more as commerce minister.

Less than half of budgeted estimates of foreign loans and assistance actually realised.

PC spokesperson unable to provide justification for extension.

Bureaucratic red tape, uncertain environment drive investors away.

Clocks in at $1,380 as total size of economy falls by Rs600 billion.

Govt is scrambling to raise the tax-to-GDP ratio to a respectable level.

GDP growth for fiscal 2012-13 will clock in at 3.59% against the target of 4.3%.

Masroor Qureshi, an employee of NBP, had been removed over ‘poor performance’.

The external debt crisis is at a precarious state as reserves have started to deplete rapidly.

GDP growth may miss target for fifth consecutive year.