Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Pakistan as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Pakistan: Country rapidly running out of foreign exchange and major risk for international employers
The country’s problems are principally due to its heavy subsidies to a badly organised and corrupt power sector, its commitments to an ever-demanding military and enormous clean-up bills from widespread flooding last Summer …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: The Apostille Convention will enter into force on 9th March 2023
Correctly certified documents from Pakistan will then be accepted in more than a hundred countries …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: Increasing representation of women in trade unions, federations stressed
Although there is increasing representation of women in trades unions, such organisations are currently weak and ineffective …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: CPI inflation hits 27.3% Y/Y in August 2022
Although hyperinflation has yet to hit much of Asia, Pakistan is already facing it head on …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: New disability law will increase protection for at least 3.3 million people
The national parliament has just passed the “ICT Rights of Persons with Disabilities Bill” and it now awaits signature by the President …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: NAB won’t be able to probe graft cases below Rs500m
New legislation to prevent investigation of corruption of below Rs 500M …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: Government ends job ads that target minorities
Punjab employers will no longer be able to advertise menial jobs as suitable to those from racial minorities …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif raises minimum wage of govt employees to Rs25,000
The new Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, has promised to increase public sector pay by 10% and fix the minimum wage in the private sector to Rs25,000 …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: Punjab raises minimum wage to Rs 20,000
The Punjab government has just increased the minimum gross monthly wage in the province to Rs20,000 (US$130 …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: Literacy rate
The level of illiteracy amongst women in Pakistan amounts to roughly half of the population …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: New system ready to facilitate overseas Pakistanis on succession issues
Employees who are working abroad may now undertake a number of transactions that previously required them to return to the country …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: Safe environment at workplaces sought for women
A group seeking improved working conditions for women has launched a campaign to persuade the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government to enforce the improvement of workplace facilities for women and protect them from discrimination and sexual harassment …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: Senate passes bill allowing paid maternity, paternity leaves
Employers are still struggling to interpret whether they are subject to the maternity and paternity law passed by the Senate back on 27th January 2020 …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: E-business invitation letter
Foreign business visitors may now obtain their Business Visa Invitation Letter (a required document for a visa application) through the “E-Business Invitation Letter” website …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.
Pakistan: NTUF demands immediate end of growing exploitation of workers
A great many of the 600,000 workers on the Sindh Industrial Trade Estate in Karachi are now on strike …
Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now.