By Tahir Sherani Published in DAWN on August 2, 2022 The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) resident representative in Islamabad, Esther Perez Ruiz, said on Tuesday that Pakistan has completed the last prior action required for the Fund’s combined seventh and eighth review by raising the petroleum development levy (PDL). In a statement issued, she said, “With the […]
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AugBy Murtaza Syed Published in The Express Tribune on August 02, 2022 Mahbub ul Haq taught me all I know about economics that is ultimately worth knowing. In a nation cruelly short of heroes, Mahbub, my first boss, was a shining light. As Chief Economist of the Planning Commission in the 1960s, he punctured the celebrated high[…]
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AugBy Hasnaat Malik Published in The Express Tribune on August 01, 2022 ISLAMABAD: The top court has reiterated that the contractual employees in the relation of master and servant had no vested right to seek regularisation without any statutory backing. “Contractual employees have no vested right to regularisation, but their regularisation may be considered subject to the[…]
