Archive for the February 3, 2019
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Business Community has expressed their serious concern over monetary policy statement of the Governor State Bank of Pakistan. They said that tightening of monetary policy by increasing 25 basis points in discount rate will ultimately
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This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed "Karachi" carried by the newspaper yesterday. As pointed out by the writer, Farhat Ali, many Karachiites remain nostalgic about the good old days. Talking about Karachi of the
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It is naive to think the Taliban have changed their stance on women's rights, says Kabul restaurateur Laila Haidari, who like many educated Afghan women fears any peace deal between the extremists and the US
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A week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with 110 killed and 238 missing, presumed dead, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated. Authorities fear
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In a move that could harden Washington's posture toward Beijing for years, the US intelligence community has characterized relations with China as a global ideological showdown that will not be doused by trade deals or
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The economic reform package announced by the Finance Minister last week was more of a sentiment booster and was by no means an intervention to curb fiscal deficit. Most of the steps announced have negligible
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Aasia Bibi has finally been declared unreservedly innocent by the Supreme Court (SC) in dismissing the review petition against her acquittal by the apex court on October 31, 2018. The SC bench headed by newly-appointed
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A World Bank report has accused Pakistan of making poor use of "significant" water resources. The economic costs from poor water and sanitation, floods and droughts are conservatively estimated to be 4 percent of GDP
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A passenger who smuggled a month-old leopard cub in hand luggage on a flight from Bangkok to Chennai has been arrested, Indian authorities said Saturday. The cub, weighing just over one kilogram (2.4 pounds), was
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A passenger who smuggled a month-old leopard cub in hand luggage on a flight from Bangkok to Chennai has been arrested, Indian authorities said Saturday. The cub, weighing just over one kilogram (2.4 pounds), was
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