Data mining by governments is not unusual however Pakistani administrations, and to be more precise Pakistani finance ministers, have routinely engaged in this exercise - some considerably more than others.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff-level agreement was reached with Pakistani authorities on 12 May 2019, a Sunday. By Thursday 16 May the State Bank of Pakistan's (SBP's) Governor, appointed only a week before on 4 May, whose appointment is the
Much has been made of the achievability (or not) of the 5.5 trillion rupee revenue target for the current year against 4.1 trillion rupees as per the revised estimates of last year noted in the budget documents (data that is being challenged). The attainm