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Pakistan's new financial year, which began last month, has kicked off one of the boldest efforts by any government to regulate foreign currency dealers.

The latest bit of good news for Pakistan's exports has helped to lift confidence surrounding an otherwise beleaguered economic environment.

General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military leader, is keen to press ahead with his political reforms in a step to mark a break for his country from its past legacy.

General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, has often lamented the country's past elected governments as an example of much that has gone wrong.

The approval given by the Pakistani government to Paki-stan International Airlines (PIA) this week for a major restructuring worth at least $1.5 billion has finally begun lifting the uncertainty surrounding the company's long-term future.

There's nothing overly surprising about the decision by General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, to assume such controversial powers as the right to dissolve the next parliament and sack the prime minister,

This week's spectacular rise of Pakistan's key stock market, the Karachi Stock Exchange, defied an important element of conventional wisdom.

Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistan's new prime minister, who heads a thin coalition government and perhaps one of the strongest oppositions ever, is faced with the difficult challenge of reviving a largely moribund economy whose outlook in parts appears to be dim.

This week's new record by Karachi's stock exchange index - the KSE 100 - must come as an important reason of encouragement for the newly arrived government of Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

View from Islamabad: Pipeline project with Iran could remain a pipe dream

Who gets to be the speaker of Pakistan's new National Assembly?

As if another 'P' would be the recipe for credence for the group of opposition turn-coats who threw their weight behind Pakistan's prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, the birth of the country's newest political party says it all.