Budget 2024
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif points out tax evasion of Rs4,000bn by "mafias", takes swipes at judiciary.
Published 15 Jun, 2023 07:23am
Only 30 of 168 lawmakers attend first day of post-budget discussion; 13 of them take part in debate
Published 14 Jun, 2023 07:01am
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar says the committees would have the mandate to look into any anomalies mistakenly printed in the budget.
Published 14 Jun, 2023 07:00am
The finance minister has asked parliament to give post-facto approval of supplementary grants for expenditure overruns and re-appropriation.
Published 13 Jun, 2023 07:16am
Defence Minister Khawaja Asif moved the resolution.
Updated 13 Jun, 2023 08:11am
Dastgir reveals plan to dole out Rs315bn to "equalise" K-Electric tariff with rest of country; claims IMF okay with budgeted Rs894bn power package.
Updated 19 Jul, 2023 09:03pm
Opposition demands genuine reforms, slams government’s mismanagement of economy; House slams events of May 9.
Updated 13 Jun, 2023 07:50am
PM Shehbaz says budget for new fiscal year to turn things around.
Updated 13 Jun, 2023 07:57am
The budget doesn’t have a leg to stand on until the IMF comes on board and debt is reprofiled to reduce financing requirements
Published 12 Jun, 2023 08:15am
"If China can have business ties with India despite its territorial disputes, why can’t we?" asks Nishat Group's chairman.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 08:38am
Shifting tubewells to solar energy has not succeeded as farmers can't risk leaving equipment worth Rs3m in the field, given law and order in rural areas.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 08:45am
Loans for young farmers, withdrawal of duties on imported seeds, Rs6bn subsidy on imported urea fertiliser are among such measures.
Published 12 Jun, 2023 07:59am
Sindh Chamber of Agriculture vice president says, “Punjab gets 100pc credit facility while we in Sindh get only 57pc of it. This disparity must end."
Published 12 Jun, 2023 07:57am
The budget may create a few jobs in some sub-sectors but the overall impact may not be enough to decrease unemployment.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 09:18am
The measures announced for IT ignore the root causes of its challenges
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 09:41am
4 out of 5 major proposed tax measures for banking sector are negative, with windfall tax of up to 50pc on "extraordinary gains" being "most negative".
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 09:47am
A sizeable percentage of average Pakistani families can end up liquidating assets or sinking deeper into debt during the year ahead.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 08:50am
Former PAMA chairman says we cannot benefit fully from plans like laptop scheme without technology transfer and local brand creation.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 09:24am
Public policy has lacked not only foresight but also hindsight as it remains largely reactive rather than proactive and regressive rather than progressive.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 09:30am
Unsurprisingly, eight out of 10 of the roughly 1,200 respondents of the online survey on Dawn.com last week expected no relief.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 09:35am
Former IMF official says current budget is "eye-wash", mini-budget will be presented soon after elections.
Published 12 Jun, 2023 07:40am
Govt also sees performance of state-owned enterprises, movement of exchange rate by SBP, Ukraine war, falling global growth as key challenges.
Published 12 Jun, 2023 07:06am
Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, Raja Riaz, will open the debate on the budget.
Updated 12 Jun, 2023 08:19am
LOWER DIR: The government contractors on Saturday said that they would go bankrupt if government failed to allocate...
Published 11 Jun, 2023 07:05am
Much-awaited Rs10bn "Sindh safe cities project (Phase-I)" announced with a substantial allocation of Rs4.5bn for the next financial year.
Updated 11 Jun, 2023 10:09am
The estimate sees seven per cent increase from last year
Published 11 Jun, 2023 07:05am
KARACHI: The Sindh government has allocated Rs214.547 billion for health services in the 2023-24 budget. The...
Updated 11 Jun, 2023 10:03am
• Rs12.52bn allocated for 20 ongoing schemes in city • CM’s budget speech has no mention of K-IV, S-III projects • Rs10bn ear...
Published 11 Jun, 2023 07:05am
No allocation for environmental protection under development budget, which constitutes more than 31pc of total.
Updated 11 Jun, 2023 08:27am
Govt proposing to make the punishment for smuggling essential goods and banned items more severe.
Published 11 Jun, 2023 07:04am
