Muhammad Munir Ahmed
SBP has taken a major step by imposing a 100pc cash margin requirement on import of as many as 404 items.
Updated 13 Mar, 2017 08:24am
Banks consider agricultural financing as cumbersome and small farmers as sub-prime borrowers
Published 13 Feb, 2017 06:11am
There is no role for the business sector, the once mega player of Islamic finance, in the whole policy package.
Updated 15 Aug, 2016 08:47am
There is a great deal of criticism of banks working in a way that has resulted in the ‘financialisation of the economy’.
Updated 01 Aug, 2016 07:55am
Pakistan has a long history of rent seeking culture under which any initiative is hijacked by the privileged people.
Published 21 Mar, 2016 06:19am
Recently, the government retired the SBP loans by borrowing from commercial banks.
Published 08 Feb, 2016 07:12am
Rural bank branches allegedly mobilising savings from their locations for onward investing in urban areas.
Updated 18 Jan, 2016 09:01am
What will happen if the SBP fails to achieve the desired results despite having full autonomy?
Published 21 Dec, 2015 06:52am
It is important to create a visible difference in the working of IBs and their conventional counterparts.
Published 30 Nov, 2015 06:45am
The banks do not finance any start-up ventures before they have completed three
years of their business life.
Published 16 Nov, 2015 06:55am
The prime minister’s kissan package is a good start towards solving the problems of the rural community.
Published 02 Nov, 2015 07:05am
After the 18th amendment, a number of functions were shifted from the federation to the provinces.
Published 19 Oct, 2015 06:57am
The ‘sunny optimism’ portrayed in the SBP’s performance reviews does not tell the whole truth about the soundness ...
Published 05 Oct, 2015 06:51am
After every 5-6 months there is turbulence in the foreign exchange market on the pretext of a shortage of dollars.
Updated 28 Sep, 2015 07:27am
Non-filers pay more in WHT than their capacity whereas people of bigger means can avoid payments on various pretexts.
Updated 07 Sep, 2015 08:19am
No seller is ready to lower the price of his products when buyers argue that the rate of inflation has dropped.
Published 31 Aug, 2015 06:32am
The easing of the inflationary pressure at home and abroad has favourably affected different sectors of the economy.
Updated 13 Apr, 2015 08:02am
A sum of Rs1.37trn will be raised through the sale of Market Treasury Bills of three-, six- and 12-month maturities.
Updated 30 Mar, 2015 09:47am
It is ironic that overseas Pakistanis send billions of dollars to their homeland every year, while the elite invest
Published 16 Mar, 2015 06:50am
Under Modaraba one party combines with the skills/ideas of another person to initiate an economic enterprise.
Updated 18 Feb, 2015 10:40am
