FBR includes foreign income under purview of the amnesty scheme

The FBR told for a resident Pakistani, the disclosure of income in Pakistan must include both within and foreign source

Economists urge avoiding IMF, focus on amnesty as FATF puts Pak on grey list

ISLAMABAD: Despite concentrated efforts to avoid the inclusion, Pakistan has officially been placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) 'grey list' on...

Pakistan’s gross borrowing requirement stands between 27-30 percent of GDP: Moody’s

Pakistan (B3 negative) alongside Argentina (B2 stable), Ghana (B3 stable), Mongolia (B3 stable), Sri Lanka (B1 negative), Turkey (Ba2 RUR-), Zambia (B3 stable) are the most vulnerable to a US dollar appreciation

Pakistan, the next outsourcing hub?

With India and the Philippines ratcheting up the rates, will Pakistan be able to jump on the BPO bandwagon?

Will outsourcing help solve Pakistan’s tax problem?

PML-N’s Miftah Ismail suggests the government can raise a lot more revenue if it outsources many of the FBR’s functions. But is it the panacea or would it create more problems than it solves?

Fintechs: Goliaths of today, dinosaurs of tomorrow?

Innovation is not the done thing in Pakistan’s commercial banking and soon Pakistan’s financial services industry is expected to witness a David-and-Goliath contest of sorts, with Fintechs with negligible capital taking on commercial banks with billions, even trillions, in assets – and beat them

At-Tahur’s road to IPO begins, book-building set to close on 26th June

At-Tahur is issuing 36.7 million shares with 75 percent for book building and remaining 25 percent for retail investors at a floor price of Rs20 per share

Turkish Shylock twists Pak’s arm for $846m pound of flesh

Turkish Karkey demands immediate payment of $846 million arbitration award handed down by the ICSID in August 2017 to Pakistan.

Rupee drops to record low of 125 against dollar

The rupee further depreciated against the US dollar falling down to an all-time low of 125 against the greenback in the open market on Wednesday

Foreign investment takes a dip, down 26.2 per cent

According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Wednesday, the country attracted FDI of $237.9 million in May, down 26.2 per cent from $322.7 million in the same month of the preceding year.

Don’t cast your vote before you’ve seen these WhatsApp leaks

Two fictional characters each representing the PTI and PML-N, engage in an enlightening WhatsApp conversation that can help prospective voters make the key decision at the ballot box.

Rupee likely to fall below 125 to dollar after Eid

The rupee’s approximately 4 per cent drop against the dollar last week, from 115.63 on Monday to 121.39 by the close on Thursday, once again rattled the currency market amid renewed fears of inflation and a Balance of Payments (BoP) crisis.

As water crisis deepens, drought reality hits Pakistani population

Per capita water availability has been on a downward trend for decades. In 1947, when Pakistan was created, the figure stood at about 5,000 cubic meters per person, according to the World Bank. Today it is 1,000 cubic meters

Customs set to end cases against Digicom, release smuggled Q-Mobile phones

Digicom Trading Pvt Ltd had cleared the containers of the phones in the cover of LED lights (bulbs) via a green channel on 31 October 2017. These mobile phones were brought to Pakistan without getting an approval of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and also without getting their IMEI numbers registered

US dollar stands strong at Rs121.50, rupee continues to fall

The dollar continued its upward trend in the interbank market on Thursday closing at Rs121.50, ahead of Eid, touching its intraday high at Rs122.00, meanwhile the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) revaluation rate was Rs121.40.