Pakistan has proposed that the World Trade Organization (WTO) establish a multilateral framework on investment facilitation. Seventy other countries have supported the initiative, which will be considered at the next WTO ministerial conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, in 2020. In preparation, a high-level forum was held in Astana on 28 September 2018. Pakistan’s participant at the forum was our Graduate Institute’s Visiting Professor, Khalil Hamdani.
Dr. Nasra Shah presented her joint work with Ms. Memoona Qazi, titled, Most Favored Destination for Pakistani Migrants: Saudi Arabia, at a workshop organized by the King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Riyadh, on February 19th, 2024 The workshop was titled Labor Migration Patterns and their Role in Economic Diversification and Sustainable Development in Saudi […]
By Riaz Riazuddin Published in Dawn on April 16, 2024 THE FBR had been publishing its Tax Expenditure Report since 2020. Each report estimates the ‘tax expenditure’, ie, the tax foregone or the revenue loss because of the built-in tax concessions and exemptions in our federal tax laws. Such concessions are legally doled out to various power[…]
