By Salman Siddiqui Published in The Express Tribune on April 14, 2022 KARACHI: The workers’ remittances received by Pakistan hit an all-time high of $2.8 billion in March, extending support to foreign exchange reserves and rupee against the US dollar. “This is the highest ever monthly level for workers’ remittances,” Pakistan’s central bank reported on Thursday. Cumulatively, […]
By Mehtab Haider Published in The News on April 13, 2022 ISLAMABAD: Former finance minister Shaukat Tarin has opposed economist Atif Mian’s tweets regarding leaving economy in the worst shape, arguing that he should have contributed to benefiting economy rather than taking a telescopic view from far away. Tarin made a telephonic call to this scribe on[…]
By Vital Signs Published in DAWN on March 27, 2022 A deel Riaz was only 22 years old when he died in November 2018 in Saudi Arabia. He had three older brothers and two sisters. His family are farmers in a rural region of Pakistan. And he was part of a team that painted mosques. “There was[…]