By Shahid Iqbal Published in DAWN on December 19, 2021 KARACHI: Hawala operators in Dubai are selling the dollar for Rs187-89 (at a premium of three to four per cent compared to rates in Pakistan), resulting in a decline in the official remittances from Pakistanis working in the United Arab Emirates. In Pakistan, the dollar was […]
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DecBy Zubeida Mustafa Published in DAWN on December 17, 2021 OUR society seems to have been obsessed for long with the idea of matrimony. Mercifully, the growing trend towards female education has to an extent weakened this obsession — but not in communities still deprived of the benefits of education and enlightenment. In these underprivileged classes, which[…]
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DecBy Riaz Riazuddin Published in DAWN on December 17, 2021 OUR average monthly wage has risen from Rs6,612 in 2007-08 to Rs21,326 in 2018-19, according to the Labour Force Survey 2018-19 (LFS). In between these 11 years, the average wage increase was 11.2 per cent per annum, somewhat higher than the average yearly inflation rate of 8.9pc.[…]
