November 27, 2019 NEW YORK: Wall Street hedge funds and lawyers have turned an arcane procedure of international treaties into a money machine, at the cost of the world’s poorest people. The latest shakedown is a $5.9 billion award against …
Read More »Pakistan: Privatisation proceeds to be used to clear off debt
(27 Nov 15) The government informed the National Assembly on Friday that it planned to clear off its debt liabilities by selling public sector enterprises (PSEs). In an otherwise lackluster session, a parliamentary secretary claimed that PML-N had received people`s mandate …
Read More »Pakistan privatizing its agriculture lands
By Abdul Khaliq/ Arab companies rush for corporate farming in Pakistan to lock up scarce water resources in agriculture belts as Federal Government offers one million acres of agriculture land to Arab monarchs, giving way to new corporate feudal system …
Read More »Plundering Public Assets – Story of Privatization in Pakistan
By Abdul Khaliq/ Pakistan, under the gospel of market economy is aggressively pursuing the policy of market liberalization and privatization since 1991. Government of Pakistan during 1990s after being hit by economic downturn was forced to adopt Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) …
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