Budget 2024 25

Pressure building

Pressure building

It is not clear when a tipping point will be reached, nor what it will trigger if and when it does arrive.
Updated 11 Jul, 2024 09:06am
Conversations

Conversations

This sense of despair is not even recognised by those ruling us, who continue to talk down to the people, or rather at each other.
Updated 09 Jul, 2024 09:12am
Supplementary grants

Supplementary grants

The abuse of a constitutional provision meant for unforeseen financial needs betrays bureaucratic disdain for parliament and public opinion.
Updated 09 Jul, 2024 09:01am
Governance test

Governance test

Does it have a firm grip on the political, economic and security situation?
Updated 08 Jul, 2024 09:01am
Death and taxes

Death and taxes

It is no wonder that every other conversation within the white-collar salaried class is about foreign migration.
Updated 08 Jul, 2024 09:09am
Taxing targets

Taxing targets

The FBR can expect to be reminded very soon that taxation is just as much a political issue as it is a fiscal concern.
Updated 08 Jul, 2024 08:45am
Taxing the taxed

Taxing the taxed

How can the government justify such taxes when its expenditure priorities are so anti-people?
Updated 05 Jul, 2024 08:57am
The budget and after

The budget and after

The budget is not only bereft of an economic and political vision, it also shows the lack of capacity to think beyond narrow interests.
Updated 03 Jul, 2024 08:57am
‘Cruel jest’

‘Cruel jest’

Actual economic course correction has once again been put off for another time.
Updated 02 Jul, 2024 08:34am