Tag: finance minister
Dar wants ‘Bhabi’ to pour Khan some sense
Finance minister says issue over formation of judicial commission can be resolved in 10 minutes if Reham Khan convinces Imran Khan
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar...
Foreign exchange reserves cross $15b!
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday congratulated Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and his team for the foreign exchange reserves crossing $15 billion.
Dar briefed the...
Khan’s praise for Ahmadi economist baffles Ahmadis
Addressing Azadi March in the capital city a few days ago, the PTI chief announced that after coming into power, he would never compromise on merit and have people like Professor Atif Mian, an Ahmadi, as his finance minister rather than appointing a relative, apparently taking a swipe at Nawaz Sharif's Samdhi (daughter’s father-in-law) Ishaq Dar.
Ministries in rented buildings will get space in New Secretariat Block:...
Federal Minister for Finance Senator Ishaq Dar chaired a meeting of the committee on allotments in New Secretariat Block at the Finance Ministry on...
Wattoo takes finance minister head on!
Ishaq Dar should at least announce a raise of 20% in the salaries of the government servants and the pensioners because they have been...
Poverty, unemployement result of interest-based banking: Siraj
KP finance minister says strengthening of BoK would lead to prosperity of people
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Finance Minister Sirajul Haq on Friday instructed the Bank...
Govt to achieve 88% literacy rate by 2015: finance minister
Provincial Minister for Finance Mian Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that government was working hard to achieve 88 percent literacy rate by 2015 so as...
Dar vows to take steps for economic stability
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Sunday vowed to take steps for bringing economic stability in the country.
In an interview‚ he said an aggressive plan...
Former finance minister to challenge Merkel: report
Germany's opposition Social Democrats have chosen Peer Steinbrueck, a former finance minister, to challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in elections next year, a newspaper reported...
Nearly Rs 3 trillion budget to be presented tomorrow
Budget for the next fiscal year 2012-13 with total outlay of nearly 3 trillion rupees will be presented in the parliament tomorrow.
Finance Minister...
‘New budget will create employment opportunities’
Finance Minister Dr Hafeez Sheikh has said that the important targets in the next financial budget would be to create new opportunity of employment...
Panic! at the Disco
After wasting more than six crucial months, the cabinet committee on restructuring (CCOR) managed to approve names of CEO for four power distribution companies...
‘Pakistan will not succumb to int’l pressure on IP pipeline’
Finance Minister Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh on Monday said that Pakistan will not succumb to any international pressure and will continue with Iran-Pak gas...
Kenya’s finance minister quits over ICC charges
Kenya’s Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta resigned Thursday after the International Criminal Court ruled this week he should stand trial for his alleged role in...
PCNS to finalise recommendations on reviewing US ties by Friday
The absence of Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh from the second consecutive meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) on Tuesday...
Wait and watch
The trend in volumes has been extremely sluggish day in, day out throughout the last week. And the KSE-100 benchmark has remained singularly one-dimensional...
There is light
Looking past the gloom and doom
We appear to have reached a point where only tales of disasters, negatives and bad news are of interest....