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Anjum Ibrahim

Partly Facetious: 'Don't miss the boat'
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Partly Facetious: 'Don't miss the boat'

"Miss the boat hunh! It's a maritime expression or so I would assume and for someone who was brought up in Lahore and not Karachi it perhaps reflects The Khan's intent to focus on Karachi as the engine of growth - I mean aren't most of his advisors from K
Published 12 Feb, 2019 12:00am
Inflation and PTI's responsibility
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Inflation and PTI's responsibility

The federal cabinet decided on 7 February 2018 to constitute a committee headed by Minister of Defense Pervez Khattak, to develop a proper system for stabilization of prices of essential commodities and to check profiteering.
Published 11 Feb, 2019 12:00am
Fire fighting yet to start!
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Fire fighting yet to start!

Federal Finance Minister Asad Umer is the seventh finance minister engaged in fire fighting in a decade (since 2008) however the fire's intensity has not abated. This however never stopped the frequent self-congratulatory statements of appropriate measure
Published 04 Feb, 2019 12:00am
Partly Facetious; Message fatigue
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Partly Facetious; Message fatigue

"I say too much exposure, too many attacks on members of the opposition who have no power any more or daily denigration of the leadership of opposition parties can lead to viewer or public fatigue with the ruling party...."
Published 02 Feb, 2019 12:00am
Asad Umer's Round Two
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Asad Umer's Round Two

Finance Minister Asad Umer has been consistently right when he accuses the previous administration of leaving behind an economy in shambles but been consistently wrong in claiming success through giving the right direction to the economy both in the first
Published 28 Jan, 2019 12:00am
The 'bill' lacks clarity
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The 'bill' lacks clarity

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Asad Umer, in his second innings of the first Test of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf government, presented a supplementary finance bill 2019 that envisages a marked reduction in taxes, maintaining that
Published 24 Jan, 2019 12:00am
The 'bill' lacks clarity
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The 'bill' lacks clarity

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Asad Umer, in his second innings of the first Test of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf government, presented a supplementary finance bill 2019 that envisages a marked reduction in taxes, maintaining that
Published 24 Jan, 2019 12:00am