Articles by Shujauddin Qureshi
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Once again, heavy rains expose the weaknesses in the KESC’s transmission and distribution network – and Karachiites suffer worse than ever.
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Demands to cancel KESC’s privatisation are surging. The MQM held its first public demonstration against the electric company on July 22, and its senators, MNAs and nazims held a press conference arguing for the re-nationalisation of KESC. Should KESC have been privatised in the first place? “No,” says a former KESC official.
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The government has chalked out various schemes intended to alleviate poverty. In fact, the government says it will lift many of the country’s poor to a level of self-sufficiency by various means, including a transition to “conditional cash transfers,” training and employment of one person per household, and the provision of work through small public works under social mobilisation programme initiatives.
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Instead of increasing the tax base, the government continues to add to the burden of the existing taxpayers.
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Will the federal budget for 2009-10 serve its twin objectives of stabilising the economy and inducing growth with equity?
News & Politics, Q & A »
Q: Karachi was rocked by severe violence during the last week of April. Being a part of the provincial government, what role did the ANP play for the restoration of law and order?
A: It is not correct to say that we are not playing our role in maintaining peace. We are sitting in the government [...]
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Hundreds of thousands of small investors of mutual funds have virtually reached the brink of bankruptcy because of the stock market crisis. There is no ray of hope for these people as the government had mismanaged the situation to such an extent that there is no legal remedy left for the investors to recover their losses.
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The fear of terrorism has caused a flight of both foreign and local capital out of Pakistan.
Business »
Currently in Pakistan, no new licenses are being issued for conventional banks; only institutions involved in Islamic banking are getting SBP approval to start new operations. But is there really any difference between the two?
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The much-hyped American forensic report on the Karachi Stock Exchange crash has absolved all the big players, creating even more controversy.
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here’s to four years of KU fun:)