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| Murky politics of gas |
| 2011-11-20 05:19:06 |
THE latest developments on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) and the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline projects are such that it may shape into an either-or situation. While work on the IP pipeline is expected to be completed ahead of schedule, the United States-backed TAPI project has also been expedited. Pipeline politics appear to have come into play. [...]
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| Gilani starts US$12 bn dam amid funds riddle |
| 2011-10-25 07:38:02 |
KARACHI – Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani laid the foundation stone of the US$12 billion Diamer-Bhasha dam in the far north of Pakistan last week, describing the project as a “life-line” for the national economy, but giving no indication of how it will be paid for. The long-delayed hydro-electric dam on the Indus River is [...]
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| Threat to Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline |
| 2011-10-24 07:38:15 |
The recent surge in target killings of Hazara community is apparently an attempt to subvert the move for building Iran-Pakistan and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India energy pipelines. Currently, Islamabad and Tehran are undertaking their gas pipeline project despite the US opposition and without India’s participation. The attacks on Hazara community have been stepped up since Islamabad and Tehran [...]
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| Pakistan may bank on survival without IMF |
| 2011-09-20 09:27:57 |
KARACHI – Pakistan may stay clear of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan programs, including the current standby arrangement worth US$11.3 billion which ends on September 30, and future deals, gambling that its existing resources are sufficient to do without. A Pakistani team led by Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh is due to meet with IMF [...]
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| Pakistan Rail on life-support |
| 2011-07-28 03:56:06 |
KARACHI – The cash-strapped Pakistani government has released two billion rupees (US$23 million) for Pakistan Railways after Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour warned that the state-owned organization would shut down its operations if funds were not injected to save it. Pakistan Railways, submerged in corruption, is a perpetual drain on the national exchequer. Late arrival [...]
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| Pakistan revenues fudge deepens IMF loan doubts |
| 2011-07-27 03:11:19 |
KARACHI – An admission that Pakistan’s tax receipts fell well short of their target in the financial year that ended in June, after earlier boasts that they had beaten the target, is increasing concern that the country will fail to secure release of outstanding International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans. As the scandal deepens, parliament is [...]
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| Challenges confronting the textile industry |
| 2011-05-23 12:44:48 |
Pakistan’s textile industry, which accounts for two-thirds of the country’s exports, is currently struggling to revive growth momentum. Many officials hope that the country’s exports in the current fiscal year would cross the $24 billion mark. The country’s exports for the first time had crossed the $20 billion mark in the first 10 months of [...]
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| Pakistan juggles the IMF, debt and taxes |
| 2011-05-23 12:43:24 |
Week-long talks between Pakistan and the IMF in Dubai ended last week without the release of the next tranche of a US$11.3 billion (Dh41.5bn) standby loan. Teams led by Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, the Pakistani finance minister, and Adnan Mazarei, the IMF’s Pakistan mission chief, reached a broad agreement on fiscal and economic measures whose [...]
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| Pak-India agree to boost trade relations |
| 2011-05-09 02:05:33 |
The move for fuel trade between India and Pakistan came under discussion last month, as the two countries began their first trade discussions since the 2008 Mumbai attacks. India has decided to undertake new initiatives with Pakistan to enable the trade of petroleum products. Both sides agreed to set up a joint working group to [...]
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| Various aspects of combating terrorism |
| 2011-05-02 04:42:22 |
The people of Pakistan are wary of both drones and dollars from Washington, though our rulers think otherwise. Critics say that the ‘dollars for drones’ policy of the United States has cost dearly to Pakistan, being the key ally of U.S. in the war on terror. The U.S. at least killed 700 people in 100 [...]
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