Increasing demand for Sukuks in Pakistan: The Islamic Shariah bond
Islamic bonds or “Sukuk” is giving a new opportunity for funding for local companies that is otherwise lacking in pakistan. Islamic markets are an important focus area...
Pakistan’s expected debt to be $110 billion by 2020
There is increasing concern in Pakistan over the foreign loans situation and the direction this is taking the country. To offset the declining foreign currency...
Chinese President calms markets assuring them of economic stability
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping said the nation must "unswervingly" crackdown on financial irregularities and illegal behaviours, while improving shortcomings in its...
Why Pakistan’s finance minister is misleading country on debt figures
Dr. Ashfaque H. Khan, Dr. Hafiz A. Pasha, Dr. Salman Shah and Mr. Sakib Sherani| The speed at which Pakistan’s debt, both domestic and external,...
No Work on CPEC’s Western Route? This is propaganda: Chief Secretary Balochistan
QUETTA, February 14, 2017: The Chief Secretary of Balochistan, Saif Ullah Chattha, has refuted a news item attributed to him that not a single...
Misery of the cotton pickers of Sindh demands Bilawal Bhutto’s attention
Sahib Khan Some months ago, people from Bheel community from Khairpur district staged sit-in protest outside Hyderabad Press Club (HPC). They were protesting against a...
Are Pakistani politicians dancing with Perkin’s hitmen?
Imtiaz Gul | John Perkins, the best selling author of the book 'Confessions of An Economic Hitman,' talks of how corrupt rulers of smaller developing nations...
Bloomberg thinks Pakistan will be an over-performer next year
Tyler Cowen | Each year I perform the exercise of picking what I think is the most underrated (and overrated) economy in the world. Past...
Thousands of Indian farmers commit suicide each year due to India’s farming policy
By Rina Chandran and Suchitra Mohanty MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Only an overhaul of India's farming policy, including addressing the small size of...
Dollar collapses in one week of Trump in office
John Geddie Investors' hopes for a fiscal boost to the world's largest economy under Trump have been tempered by controversial and protectionist policies that have...
Silicon Valley puts money and muscle into fighting Trump immigrant ban
Silicon Valley took the lead over the weekend in corporate resistance to US President Donald Trump's clampdown on immigration. Criticizing the plan, US tech companies...
Employees rejected proposal to lease out Pakistan Steel Mill for 30 years
The employees of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) have opposed a government proposal to lease out the country’s largest industrial unit for 30 years and...