Fatima S Attarwala
As an organisation, the Central Directorate of National Savings has existed before partition.
Updated 23 Nov, 2020 10:00am
"If the impression is created that it only originates from India, then our exports will definitely take a hit," says exporter.
Updated 02 Nov, 2020 10:30am
Much of Quetta’s economy is entwined with Iran through barter due to the lack of banking channels.
Updated 26 Oct, 2020 09:02am
Bayer Pakistan CEO says he does see much future for multinationals in the drug sector.
Updated 19 Oct, 2020 08:33am
Resistant to the economic fallout of Covid-19, Sialkot retained its workforce during the pandemic with no mass layoffs.
Updated 12 Oct, 2020 08:45am
It has been 12 years since the end of the musical chairs of military rule and bouts of interrupted democracy.
Published 24 Aug, 2020 06:29am
Market capitalisation of real estate in the country is over $1tr, a figure more than three times the size of Pakistan’s GDP.
Updated 13 Jul, 2020 08:15am
Short of a winged messenger bringing glad tidings, all talk of the growth rate and future prospects is just that: talk.
Published 15 Jun, 2020 01:08pm
INFLATION is down to single digits and the balance of trade has improved.
Updated 08 Jun, 2020 08:38am
Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate the market size of domestic labour in Pakistan is worth billions.
Updated 02 Jun, 2020 08:15am
If there was ever a time to go deep in debt and beg, borrow and steal to finance relief measures, it is now.
Updated 27 Apr, 2020 08:50am
Is it not their responsibility to sell drugs at cost at least to reduce the financial burden on ordinary people?
Published 13 Apr, 2020 06:02am
‘I am grateful that I can earn Rs15,000 a month. In the village, I was paid Rs200 per day for hard labour from 8am to...
Published 09 Mar, 2020 07:08am
One trader says they expect things to normalise by June-July.
Updated 25 Feb, 2020 11:05am
PSL is a marketing exercise in entertainment that has the potential to be a multi-billion-dollar asset for the country.
Published 17 Feb, 2020 07:39am
Being complacent while one of our biggest trading partners undergoes major changes hardly seems to be the best strategy.
Updated 10 Feb, 2020 07:35am
Textile, taking up the lion’s share of exports, is unlikely to be a catalyst for growth despite the room created by....
Published 06 Jan, 2020 07:07am
There had been some noise about Beijing offering unilateral concessions against the background of the CPEC.
Published 16 Dec, 2019 07:14am
People don’t pay import duties if they are too high. There is either under-invoicing or smuggling.
Published 02 Dec, 2019 07:05am
‘If the government had continued to pressurise traders, I think we would have broken rank.
Published 04 Nov, 2019 07:17am