Budget in focus 2025-26

Minister slams Centre for ‘ignoring’ development of Karachi

KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Energy, Development, and Planning Syed Nasir Hussain Shah stated that Sindh is the only...

Published 20 Jun, 2025 06:20am

PM forms body to promote cashless economy, digitization

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday formed a high-level committee to accelerate the country’s...

Updated 19 Jun, 2025 08:32am

FAPUASA for 25pc tax rebate for university teachers & researchers

LAHORE: A delegation from the Federation of All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Associations (FAPUASA), led by...

Updated 20 Jun, 2025 08:21am

Punjab sports-related initiatives highlighted

LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Sports & Youth Affairs Malik Faisal Ayub Khokhar said the Punjab government aims...

Updated 20 Jun, 2025 07:07am

PPA opposes ‘draconian powers’ to tax officials

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) has expressed serious concern that tax authorities are being given...

Published 20 Jun, 2025 07:13am

Punjab PA budget session turns chaotic as treasury, opposition members trade barbs

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly’s budget session turned into a scene of uproar as lawmakers from the treasury and...

Published 20 Jun, 2025 06:20am

NA Speaker, Fazl discuss federal budget

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Chief Maulan Fazlur Rehman...

Published 20 Jun, 2025 07:22am

Tax officials’ new powers: FPCCI mulling moving the court

KARACHI: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has unequivocally rejected the new...

Updated 20 Jun, 2025 07:02am

IMF agreed to spare agriculture sector from taxes, says PM Shehbaz

• PM says agriculture sector “already under pressure” in country

Updated 18 Jun, 2025 05:55pm

Maintaining the policy rate

EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 11 percent in spite of ...

Published 19 Jun, 2025 05:53am

Punjab budget

EDITORIAL: Punjab Finance Minister Mian Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman has presented a 5.33 trillion-rupees budget with a ...

Published 18 Jun, 2025 06:10am

Solar power: Curb the bigger beast of net-metering first

News is out that the National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance has unanimously rejected the proposed 18 ...

Updated 19 Jun, 2025 09:08am

Current account: Surplus on borrowed time?

After a brief surplus stint in April 2025, Pakistan’s current account has slipped back into deficit — clocking...

Updated 19 Jun, 2025 08:55am

Health system suffers as cigarette tax left untouched

The federal budget for 2025-26, announced amidst a backdrop of fragile economic recovery, signals a continuation of...

Published 19 Jun, 2025 06:52am

Between optics and austerity

Pakistan’s economic policies resemble a car with two drivers, each pulling the wheel in opposite directions. One...

Published 19 Jun, 2025 06:56am

PALSP for linking tariff cuts to power rates

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Association of Large Steel Producers (PALSP) Wednesday urged upon the Senate Standing Committee...

Published 19 Jun, 2025 07:18am

Punjab budget focuses on ‘equitable’ economic growth

LAHORE: The Punjab government has outlined a comprehensive and ambitious development agenda for FY2025–26 which...

Published 19 Jun, 2025 07:35am

AJK govt unveils Rs310.2bn ‘tax-free’ budget

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday unveiled the annual budget with a record outlay of...

Published 19 Jun, 2025 05:53am

Govt well prepared to tackle any fallout: Aurangzeb

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said Tuesday that the government will ensure adequate stockpiles of...

Updated 18 Jun, 2025 09:30am

NA panel rejects 18pc GST on solar panels

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committees on Finance and Revenue, unanimously, rejected the proposal of...

Published 18 Jun, 2025 06:10am