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February 20, 2021
Minister says there can’t be a state within the state PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) Minister Fehmida Mirza on Saturday said that Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah was answerable to Prime Minister Imran Khan as Pakistan was not a confederation but a federation. “How are you [Sindh CM] not answerable to the chief executive of the country; you can’t violate the constitution,” she said, adding that the Constitution was a pact between the state and the people ...
January 25, 2021
Renowned economist Dr Ashfaque Hasan Khan on Friday said that the government should abandon the narrative of blaming the previous governments of soaring debt, as several members of the past regimes are now part of the incumbent one
January 23, 2021
Why cars are expensive in Pakistan? PakWheels co-founder says overpricing without int’l standard features real issue PHOTO: REUTERS ISLAMABAD: What comes to your mind when you think about buying a car in Pakistan – taxes? Duties? Little or almost no safety and quality features … or almost no value for your money? That’s right; not only this is what is being produced and sold but, at the moment, there is no focus at all on the production of cheap cars having features of international st...
January 1, 2021
Trust deficit at core of census dispute, says economist Dr Bengali says offer of early census not to heal Centre-Sindh rift ISLAMABAD: Economist Dr Kaiser Bengali has alleged that the three-year old dispute over population census between the Centre and the Sindh government was because of the trust deficit between the federation and the federating unit. The leading economist, who is also a member of the National Finance Commission (NFC) representing Balochistan, said the federal government’s o...
December 19, 2020
Several tax collectors have yet to file returns At least 425,000 taxpayers have sought extension in filing the returns Tax. PHOTO: FILE ISLAMABAD: This week, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) surprised tax filers by not extending the date for filing returns and issued notices to roughly 850,000 people over their failure to file returns in time. The real surprise, however, for the tax collecting authority is that a large number of its 22,000 officials have also yet to file returns – skeleton...