Promise Tracking
PML-N breaks promise to increase Tax-to-GDP ratio to 15 percent
The Promise : In its 2013 election manifesto, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had promised to increase the Tax-to-GDP ratio to 15 percent by the end of its tenure in 2018. Background : According to the Economic Survey of Pakistan 2015/16, the tax-to-GDP ratio in Pakistan varied between 9.1 and 11.0 percent. The survey further argues that …
PM compromises his promise to build international airport in Bannu
The promise: Peshawar: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had announced the establishment of an international airport in Bannu, a gateway to the volatile North Waziristan tribal region, alongside other development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) last year. Background: On May 2nd, while speaking to a cheering crowd at a public gathering in Bannu, the beleaguered prime …
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The writ of the state
Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan’s (TLP) prominent leaders have been charged with sedition and terrorism in a latest bid by the Pakistan state. The government, in doing so, sends a clear message that no contra-state pressures or actions will be tolerated in Pakistan and that no one can threaten or halt major state apparatus or position holders and …
Pakistan’s media in dark ages
Pakistan’s media is going through the dark ages of its history. For starters, working conditions for journalists are nowhere close to satisfactory, furthermore, there is no guarantee that they will live to see another day. According to the International Federation of Journalists, Pakistan was ranked fourth in their list of the most dangerous countries for …
Detangling the financial yarn
PTI wants to be known as a results-driven government. In the two months since taking reigns of the country, the PM, Imran Khan, has painstakingly turned all stones, looking for means to aid the damaged economy. The only international visits the PM undertook, thus far, were to consolidate the national kitty. Khan and his ministers …
