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Jul

Remittances soar to all-time high in FY21

By Salman Siddiqui Published in DAWN on July 13, 2021 KARACHI: The amount sent home by overseas Pakistanis in fiscal year 2020-21 registered the fastest growth in past 18 years and rose to an all-time high of $29.4 billion while playing a leading role in boosting country’s foreign currency reserves and improving its capacity to make international […]

17

Jun

A dangerous bargain

By Khurram Husain Published in DAWN on June 17, 2021 IN a couple of television appearances, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin quietly dropped a bombshell of an announcement and hurriedly moved. He said the IMF has postponed the ongoing sixth review of the facility Pakistan just restarted in April and decided to let the government first demonstrate the[…]

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Jun

Biden picks Pakistan-origin Big Tech critic as top federal regulator

Published in DAWN on June 16, 2021 US President Joe Biden on Tuesday installed an energetic critic of Big Tech as a top federal regulator at a time when the industry is under intense pressure from Congress, regulators and state attorneys general. The selection of Pakistan-origin legal scholar Lina Khan to head the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)[…]