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Financial constraints: Govt to take away another piece from PSDP budget
Scarcity of resources cuts number of projects to 1,252 from over 1,900.
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Tough love: ‘No money until power companies improve efficiency’
Cabinet committee adopts finance ministry’s stance of requiring reforms first.
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Poverty rate: Three years on, govt decides to redraw the line
Poverty numbers may be released in a couple of months: Planning Commission.
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Tax collection target: FBR gets the job done one way or another
Experts raise eyebrows over mismatch in growth rates of sales tax at import stage and customs duties.
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Irregularities in banks: Senate panel meeting put off for third time in a row
Committee members suspect that postponement a move to protect the corrupt.
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Parting ways with the IMF: The govt’s math does not add up
How the government is making fiscal decisions based on highly flawed logic and even worse arithmetic.
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Economic assistance: Civilian aid will not be axed, assures US
Washington stays mum over CSF, clears $300m Enterprise Fund.
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Dodgy dealing: Army court of inquiry takes up NLC case
Chaudhry Nisar criticises PM but welcomes military’s approach.
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Discouraging investment: Profit rates on savings schemes reduced
Returns come down following drop in bond yields and slowdown in inflation.
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Currency depreciation: SBP ready for ‘calibrated interventions’ to halt rupee decline
Experts rule out manipulation; blame oil payments, IMF programme halt.









