Former minister Shaukat Tarin is appearing before the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Petroleum on Tuesday to brief its members on how he was kept in the dark by the Petroleum Ministry bosses at the time of award of the LNG contract to the highest bidder.
This meeting will bring Tarin face [...]
Pakistan’s Economy is among the worst economies in the world. Shaukat Tarin, the former finance minister has resigned at last. It was known for some months that Tarin was going out. His clashes and differences from rest of the cabinet and the premier was known to everybody. For the last six or so months, everybody [...]
Opposition to the decision to elect Shaukat Tarin as a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senator on the technocrat seat from Sindh on the wishes of party chief and President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, did not come from the coalition partners of the PPP government in Sindh or from the opposition. The opposition to this [...]
The budget revealed the continuing disconnect between the rulers and the ruled despite the advent of civilian rule and apparent democracy. Why else would the government have put even more burden on the poor through growing indirect taxation and actions that will make the basics of survival ever more expensive? The carbon surcharge is going [...]
In his post-budget speech, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance Shaukat Tarin on Sunday ‘advised’ the people to take a cue from the US population and start using public transport to cut their fuel costs.
Well, we are ready to take cue from the Americans and will use the public transport, but is government ready [...]
We appreciate FIA’s efforts against KKI and other exchange companies involved in currency smuggling that is hurting the economy of our beloved country badly.
This is a good beginning and we lend our support to the President of Pakistan, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, Rehman Malik, Shaukat Tarin and other FIA officials for nabbing the white color [...]
