By Anmol Irfan Published in Dawn on June 06, 2025 Shayan* and his wife Aliya* spent the last couple of months preparing their travel plans, which included a potential Haj trip after a visit back home to their families in Pakistan. At least, this was the plan up until the end of March. Shayan, a PhD student […]
By Khaleeq Kiani Published in Dawn on June 06, 2025 ISLAMABAD: Almost forty-five per cent of Pakistan’s population lives below the poverty line, according to a World Bank report released on Thursday. The finding, based on a survey conducted in 2018-19, comes in the wake of an update of global poverty lines made by the bank, and[…]
By Ishrat Husain Published in The News on June 03, 2025 THE finance minister recently announced that the next budget would be a ‘strategic’ budget rather than making the math work. The annual budget is not only an instrument of fiscal policy (taxation, levies and expenditure choices ) but also directly or indirectly affects monetary policy, trade[…]