ISLAMABAD: The tax collection during the first ten months of current financial year stood at Rs.1,025.6 billion against the collection of Rs. 900.9 billion during the same period of last year, showing... (more...)

ISLAMABAD: Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance and Economic Affairs Dr.Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has said that Economic Survey for 2009-10, highlighting the performance, of the economy during the outgoing... (more...)

LALA MUSA: Punjab Finance Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira has said that the provincial budget for next fiscal year (2010-11) would be public-friendly as the preparation of budget was in final stage.Talking... (more...)

BRUSSELS: Crisis talks between the EU’s 27 finance ministers began in Brussels on Sunday, hours from a deadline set by eurozone leaders to create a firewall for the euro before markets reopen in... (more...)

WASHINGTON: Spurred by deep  election-year voter anger, the US Senate voted Wednesday to forbid government-funded bailouts of big banks those like those blamed for the global economic meltdown of 2008.In... (more...)

NEW YORK: Barack Obama railed at unfettered corporate greed Thursday as he laced his defining pitch for US financial reform with stark warnings that if the bid fails the economic crisis will be repeated.... (more...)

MADRID: Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado, whose country currently holds the European Union chair, called on Sunday for closer alignment with Asia on monetary matters.”We have to … coordinate... (more...)

QUETTA: Former federal finance minister Sardar Shaukat Tareen on Monday said that the present government has successfully overcome the serious financial and economic problems which it inherited from the... (more...)

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has appreciated the hard work of former Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin and thanked him for his tireless efforts in bringing the economy of Pakistan back on track.... (more...)