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...That is more than 50 per cent up on 2021’s toll and thrice the number in 2020, the last full year before US forces withdrew and the Taliban swept back to power in Afghanistan....
...Miftah Ismail, another former finance minister, said deep economic reform would also be needed. “Pakistan’s viability at this point depends on magnanimity of its friends,” he said....
...Pakistan’s finance minister Miftah Ismail announced his resignation late on Sunday, stepping down as the country grapples with an economic crisis recently worsened by devastating floods....
...“The bullet was meant to kill, not scare,” Ismail said. Pakistan has a grim history of political violence....
...He replaces Miftah Ismail, a businessman who resigned from the post late on Sunday....
...“This is going to really hurt us,” Ismail said. Investors also remain wary....
...A consortium of Chinese state banks has lent $2.3bn to Pakistan to help the country stave off a foreign payments crisis, finance minister Miftah Ismail said on Friday....
...“In the last three years and three-quarters, [Imran Khan’s] incompetent team brought our beloved country to the brink of destruction,” finance minister Miftah Ismail said in his budget speech....
...The “government has decided to end subsidies on fuel and raise prices starting midnight”, Miftah Ismail, the finance minister, said shortly before the latest increases came in effect....
...Akbar S Babar, a PTI founding member who fell out with Khan and subsequently complained to the ECP in 2014 about the lack of transparency in the party’s records of funds from foreign sources, on Tuesday...
...Akbar S Babar, a PTI founding member who fell out with Khan and subsequently complained to the electoral commission in 2014 about the lack of transparency in the party’s records of funds from foreign sources...
...Malaysia: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob presents the country’s final budget for 2023 to parliament....
...Ismail travelled to Washington last month to ask the IMF to expand the programme to $8bn of aid until the end of 2023....
...From the PLM-N, Miftah Ismail, a Karachi businessman, was named finance minister and Ahsan Iqbal planning minister, with responsibility for Beijing’s $60bn Belt and Road investment, the China-Pakistan Economic...
...Additional reporting by Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad...
...“Whenever we have growth, even the semblance of growth . . . we run into a current account deficit issue,” says Miftah Ismail, a former finance minister and member of the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N...
...It has initiated multiple legal proceedings against the oil ministry and its minister, Ihsan Ismail....
...DBS had total assets of S$686bn (US$488bn) as of December 2021....
...The playable character of Farah in 2019’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (a series which was a prime offender in previous iterations) is an example of positive representation....
...S&P acknowledges that Country Garden has a “stronger-than-peer funding capability” given its recent record....
...But Fahad Rauf, head of equity research at Ismail Iqbal Securities in Karachi, said: “Any amount of dollars helps because time and again we face a current account crisis....
...Right now is not a good time for painful measures.”Miftah Ismail, a former finance minister and opposition leader, said that an agreement forged by Mr Khan and the IMF to reduce the fiscal deficit appeared...
...In addition to the horror of it all, I felt a selfish irritation over September 11’s impact on my planned itinerary....
...Reuters news agency, which first reported that the US sanctions were imminent, said the measures would target not only Ismail Demir, head of Turkey’s Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB), but also the...
...authorisations to Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), the government agency that handles Turkey’s military purchases and defence exports, as well as an asset freeze and visa restrictions on Ismail...
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