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Aug“I could not believe the news… I had talked to him a few hours earlier”Sumi Akter, the wife of 34-year-old Mohammed Suman Miah, who died suddenly after working outside all day in temperatures that reached 38°C. Ever since FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar in 2010, there have been repeated allegations that migrant workers were […]
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AugBy Shahbaz Rana Published in DAWN on August 12, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Wednesday approved a subsidy of Rs13.1 billion for retaining the inflows of foreign remittances at their existing level — $29.4 billion annually — amid ambiguity over an incremental increase in the amount. The government has also made[…]
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AugBy Salman Siddiqui Published in DAWN on August 11, 2021 KARACHI: Pakistan has received the third largest workers’ remittances amounting to $2.71 billion in July, the first month of current fiscal year, making the much-needed finances available to pay for increasing imports which is a must to achieve the planned higher economic growth. This was the sixth[…]
