[ad_1] With collaboration from an investment professional. As is widely understood, Pakistan is facing the dual dilemma of foreign debt servicing that has placed her foreign exchange reserves under significant…
Tag: Finance minister Ishaq Dar
The Fund strikes back
[ad_1] It didn’t take long for the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to red-flag the budget, did it? Just as feared in last week’s column, it still wants the government to…
One burger combo, please!
[ad_1] Finance minister Ishaq Dar has been regularly claiming two things: One, Pakistan won’t default on its external debt commitments and two, that the real value of the PKR/USD is…
Budget: Will money come as budgeted?
[ad_1] The key question from an economic perspective is not whether the budget 2023-24 is pro-poor, pro-business, pro-growth, or even an election year budget but whether it has the key…
Economic impasse is a ticking bomb waiting to go off
[ad_1] Nothing is going right in the country. The sovereign default is inevitable without an IMF (International Monetary Fund) deal which is being delayed at the behest of political leadership.…
The challenge of trust deficit
[ad_1] “Trust deficit”, not anything else perhaps, is the principal reason behind the story of stalled International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, according to finance minister Ishaq Dar. In other words,…