Pakistan seeking at least $7.6 bln IMF loan

Pakistan's financial condition is in bad shape, it is asking for IMF loan to handle its balance of apyment crisis.World economy is alrady in tatters, and the demand for pakistani goods in international market is...

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani okays IMF bailout package

"Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani has given the green signal to finalise details of an economic bailout package with the International Monetary Fund and a six-member delegation will leave for Dubai next week to negotiate, official sources said here yesterday. Adviser on...

IMF playing negative role in global economic crisis

"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is playing a ‘negative role’ in the current global economic crisis, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz said on Friday. Aziz also stressed the need for a strategy to deal with future challenges. In an interview with ARY OneWorld,...

Zero Plus Zero Equals Zero

"By Ardeshir Cowasjee arfc@cyber.net.pk Dawn News My very dear old friend, Haji Ebrahim, a merchant born in Dhoraji (then in Kathiawar), and I converse in our mother tongue, Gujerati, a language which can encapsulate a chapter-long ‘situation’ in one single...

Pakistan lawyers press call to reinstate judges

The lawyers’ movement in Pakistan that started after the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry last year turned into a mass movement after Pervez Musharraf ambushed judiciary on this day of...

Pakistan Braces for a Backlash After Taliban Raid

"An air strike on a religious school kills 80, raising prospects for new unrest directed at Musharraf. A Pakistani military air strike on a pro-Taliban religious school in the country's volatile North West...

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