Tag: Unemployment
Of matters past
Bygones be not bygones
A majority of readers and viewers have a gripe with us analysts who write in the press and speak on the...
Power and jobs
The obvious relation
Two billion dollars. That is the figure the World Bank puts on our annual power sector deficit. In its recently published report...
Gas crisis
Bounded rationality
They want it all and they want it now. The ability of public discourse, fuelled by the media, to hold several contradictory positions...
Gas crisis generating unemployment
Textile sector of Faisalabad, ‘The industrial capital of Pakistan”, which was finding it hard to cope with four-days weekly gas cut, had another deadly...
What good’s a gold medal with no jobs?
The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology (FUUAST) conferred gold medals on 113 of its students during the 3rd annual convocation on...
Stop the blame game
It seems that the politics of Pakistan has become a blame game. Politicians are levelling allegations against each other. Their main objective is to...
Unemployment breeding crime
Unemployment is a central problem from which various other problems are hatching out. It causes frustration, backwardness, poverty among the people and forces them...
Drowning in a sea of problems
Pakistan is a special case as far as social evils and other problems that plague its social, political and economic life are concernd. From...
JPJM to launch drive against inflation, unemployment
Addressing a Jeevay Pakistan Jeevay Muqami Hakumat (JPJM) rally with ex-local government representatives and common folk, Daniyal Aziz promised to launch a struggle against...
Should we be paid against our work?
hy do people want to be employed? Is it for fun? For time pass? For socialising? Or to add job titles to one’s resume...
Industrial unemployment
The fact of unemployment is somewhat hidden by the joint family system where everyone is supported out of a common pool of income, and...
Pakistan and its chronic unemployment
Pakistan is a nation that has been plagued by many problems throughout it’s more than 6 decades of existence. But one problem that has...
Cuts could boost US unemployment, warns Pentagon
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is warning Congress that possible sweeping cuts to the defense budget would put millions more out of work and add...
Unemployment & Crime: The link within
Despite tall claims and press statements, the police lag far behind in its duty of protecting people and their properties. Dacoits, thieves and gangsters...
Next budget targets unemployment
Solid measures have been taken in the new budget to eliminating unemployment from Punjab, Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday. He...
‘Car import relaxation to trigger unemployment’
KARACHI - Local automobiles manufacturers have declared government's decision to allow import of reconditioned cars as detrimental to the local industry, fearing that it would trigger a massive rise in unemployment. Talking to the media at the Toyota's "Dream Car Contest" organised by Toyota Central Motors (TCM), Indus Motors Company (IMC) Director Marketing Raza Ansari said that local manufacturers had already notifies the government that import of second-hand cars would hurt
PTI organises protest against price-hike and unemployment
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Punjab chapter on Tuesday organised a protest and token hunger-strike camp outside the Punjab Assembly against imposition of the Reformed General Sales Tax (RGST), price-hike, unemployment and alleged corruption in government departments. Party leaders led by PTI Punjab President Ahsan Rashid opposed imposition of new taxes under the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) orders and urged the federal government to give up its anti-poor
