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Jahangir’s World Times (JWT): As the IMF programme is moving ahead, how do you see the performance of Pakistan’s economy in the first eighteen months of the programme? Harald Finger (HF): Pakistan has made significant progress in the first 18 months of the IMF programme in addressing short-term imbalances and risks coming out of economic crisis of 2013. Tremendous progress …

astound: (v) astonish, stun, confound, dumbfound, flabbergast The magician astounded the audience by conjuring spirits and talking with mummies. befitting:  (adj) fitting, appropriate to, suited to, apt for They offered him a post befitting his seniority and experience. bemused: (adj) bewildered, puzzled, baffled, stumped, muddled He was looking at the boys with a bemused expression. blaze: (n) fire, flames, conflagration, …

India’s bid for a permanent seat on the UNSC from a Pakistani perspective US Support of India’s bid US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in January this year brought great gifts for his hosts and one such gift was the US backing for India’s bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). This was indeed a …

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a Nation-State. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. Hailed as a ‘Great Leader’ (Quaid-i-Azam) of Pakistan and its first Governor-General, Jinnah virtually conjured that country into statehood by the force of his indomitable will.” (Prof Stanley Wolpert; …

The institution of prayer is found in all religions of the world in one form or the other. All the great religious personalities have recognised that prayer is communion with God — a link between the slave and his Master. Had there been no prayer, man’s life would have been completely rudderless and God would not have been a living …

Although a lot of changes have been introduced to the new syllabus for CSS exam, yet it never means that one should feel desperate and discouraged. Change is always good, and the one which seems to ensure the supply of better lot of new officers to the country’s bureaucratic sodality is vital as well. Introduction As CSS 2016 will be …

Importance of tax revenue in the fiscal system of a country cannot be negated because it is a leading source of revenue for balancing the budgets. Tax revenue constitutes major component of revenue receipts in all around the world with the exception of a few natural-resource-rich countries where non-tax revenue is a major source of revenue. It is also not …

How to manage time and workload to improve efficiency One of the main causes of stress that a public servant often faces in his service is mismanagement of time or failure in managing activities in time. There may be a number of reasons behind this phenomenon, ranging from time-wasters to lack of planning, organization or controlling activities in terms of …

Introduction The prefatory question is not ‘how to measure,’ but is ‘why to measure’ terrorism. The question may be open to many an answer; one response with erudite credentials came from Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger of the Institute of Empirical Research in Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland. In a paper entitled “Measuring Terrorism” (2003), they opined that the …

While acknowledging the fact that the impacts of colonialism, whether of positive or of negative implications, on Muslim world are, by the degree of their complexity and more importantly because of the intensity of the involved intricacy, are easy to describe and hard to measure; however, here, it would be a sheer injustice on our part if we deprive the …