In an effort to explain our escalating financial crisis, an American Nightmare (an Environmental Dream), the pundits are focusing their angst on the 44thPOTUS, who might very well go down as the single most inept president in all of American history. (How to Squander the Presidency in One Year, David Michael Green)
Barack Obama is not [...]
Pakistani Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said on Tuesday he was resigning to focus on his private business interests.
Pakistan’s Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said that in order to stop the decline in the value of rupee, the exports would have to be increased and imports would have to be brought down.
All kinds of agriculture products and power machinery in Pakistan would be brought into the value-added tax regime.
Pakistan is expected to face stiff resistance in getting the country’s newly agreed budget deficit of 5.1 per cent approved in the IMF Executive Board meeting, scheduled for February 24, in Washington to qualify for the next tranche of $1.2 billion. Opposition by certain member countries is being apprehended by Pakistan’s financial minders.
Pakistani products currently on display here at the Spring Fair 2010 at the national exhibition centre are receiving high level of interest and appreciation from the foreign buyers and getting fresh orders from the wholesale and retail suppliers.
A key Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer here expressed desire to expand its business ties with Pakistan.
A high powered delegation of Sichuan Province of China visited Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) here on Tuesday and discussed possibilities to further enhance trade, investment and economic cooperation with Pakistan.
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has lauded Chinese cooperation in the development of Gwadar Port.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki indicated that China might join the Pak-Iran Gas Pipeline Project very soon but he blamed Washington for destabilising not only Afghanistan but also Pakistan and said that the presence of US troops in the region was even a big threat for the security of Iran.
