Amar Hameed

The Steel Mills should be only the beginningPakistan Steel Mills shut down commercial operations in 2015. Its 9350 employees are being paid Rs 350 million per month in salaries since then. Fin

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Thinking important things through Last week I was watching a talk show program on television on which Mr Shaukat Tarin, former finance minister of Pakistan, was a guest. He praised the prime<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/10/26/the-fantasy-of-five-million-homes-in-five-years/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Don’t we?Recently I watched a TV talk show on which Mr Razak Dawood, the advisor to PM on commerce, was a guest. In this program he said that over the past ten or fifteen years there had bee

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FDI has played an important role in the process of globalisation By filling the gap between domestic savings and investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role in capital formation and<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/09/27/do-we-discourage-foreign-investment/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Alas the Muslim world today is a weak one For months now the terrible plight of the Rohingyas has been in the news almost daily. Every newspaper in every country (with the<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/05/10/do-muslims-care-about-rohingya/" title="Read more" >...</a>

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Looking at the right statsA lot has been written about tax. Most writers have focused on the low tax base of Pakistan and concluded that we do not pay enough tax. It is said that the ratio of

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On the one hand…Most people believe that devaluation of your currency will increase exports, reduce imports and fix the balance of payments deficit. Ask any economist to explain and he/she will te