New Delhi, Jan 31 (IANS) As the Pakistan’s government goes gaga over record remittances — $38.5 billion in FY25 – the narrative actually obscures the devastating reality that the country is haemorrhaging its future, a new report has revealed.The reality is that mass departure of doctors, engineers and skilled professionals “should not be called a point of pride, but a shameful and profound policy failure”, reports The Express Tribune.A nation cannot build its future on money wired from…
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New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) Marking a significant milestone in strengthening bilateral economic and strategic cooperation, India and the European Union (EU) have concluded negotiations on financial services in the Free Trade Agreement (FTA).Among the key achievements of Financial Services Annex, India and EU have committed to collaborate on enabling greater interoperability and interlinkages and development of electronic payment infrastructure and convenience of cross-border payments to promote rea…
New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) Pakistan’s Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES), published after a gap of six years, exposes the extreme level of poverty in the country with food-insecure households surging from 15.9 per cent in 2018 to 2019 to a staggering 24.4 per cent in 2024 to 2025, according to a report in the local media.The HIES figures confirm Pakistan’s deepening human development crisis amid shrinking incomes, rising poverty, and widening inequality resulting from the prolonged sp…
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) A sharp fall of 20.4 per cent in Pakistan’s exports in December — the fifth consecutive month of declining overseas shipments of the country — underscores that the slump stems from structural factors and can no longer be dismissed as a temporary setback, according to an article in the local media.The article in the Dawn observed that Pakistan’s poor export performance has always remained the weakest link in its external sector stability chain. This has become even m…
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the Pakistan government to reduce its spending on incentives given for foreign remittances, a move that has raised concerns among experts about a possible shift of money flows back to informal channels. According to a report by Nikkei Asia, analysts fear that cutting these incentives could weaken official banking routes and push more remittances towards backstreet networks such as hawala and hundi.The IMF’s recommendation…