A recent meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee has decided to import 200,000 metric tonnes of sugar to build strategic reserves as countermeasures because the government expects speculative forces to drive the price up. Rs18 billion has been set aside for the import of the necessary sweetener.
The Saudi foreign minister, visiting Pakistan on the invitation of FM Qureshi, will be accompanied by a delegation comprising senior officials of the Saudi Government.
Pakistan opened the Chaman-Spin Boldak crossing which was closed by Pakistan for commercial traffic since fierce fighting for control of the crossing erupted between Taliban insurgents and Afghan security forces.
Bodies found on K2 are reported to be of Pakistan’s hero mountaineer Ali Sadpara and Iceland’s John Snorri. Sadpara’s son Sajid had set on an expedition last month to recover the bodies and make a documentary on their lives.
Syed M Uzair reviews Jamil Nasir's work. According to Syed Uzair, Mr. Jamil's book presents an excellent comparison of the different socio-political realms of different countries in the world with it. The author argues that the essence of governance lies in how state-society relations are structured and managed, and how citizens perceive the rules of the game.
After Fakhr-e-Alam and Shoaib Malik, now 73 Pakistani entrepreneurs and businessmen have been granted the Golden Visa that erases travel restrictions for 10 years.
Imran Khan government has started work to comply with the FATF's recent and most challenging points given in the recent plenary. The implementation of these points would tighten the regulations for Pakistanis who have investments abroad.
Pakistan's Current Account has fared pretty well on the back of high capital inflows from remittances and the textile sector, but the recent downward trajectory shows that government needs to work on policy reforms to diversify the export portfolio and maintain the promised "sustainable growth".
