Proposes to more than double the spending on education and health, reduce fertility rate by half

The GDP will slow down and job market will remain tight, predicts the research firm

The dollar has been hovering between Rs139 and Rs140 for a month now

It is being traded at Rs67,400 per tola

Our economic indicators are now improving

Pakistan’s largest startup event ropes in 50 institutional investors

Eating chicken is going to be more expensive now

Pakistan now ranks 136th on the list

Findings revealed in SCB’s Emerging Affluent Study 2018

Govt is currently negotiating with IMF

Pakistan has the world’s fourth largest IT workforce

In the open market it was traded above Rs135

Going to the IMF was not a part of our policy, he said

It is only a matter of when, and not if

Is a voter born to elevate politicians to assemblies

Pakistan has gone to the IMF repeatedly since the late 1980s

Pakistani economic advisors discussed banning imports of luxury cars, smartphones and cheese in a wide-ranging strategy session on how to avoid seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a senior government advisor said. While no decisions were made, the floating of radical measures to tackle Pakistan’s ballooning current account deficit by the newly…

Pakistan’s next government, to be chosen in a July 25 election, faces growing fears of a balance of payments crisis with speculation it will have to seek its second IMF bailout in five years, analysts say. The central bank is running down its foreign reserves and devaluing the currency in a bid to bridge a…

KARACHI: Pakistan has raised $2.5 billion from foreign capital markets by issuing the five-year Sukuk (Islamic bond) and the 10-year Eurobond in New York. Officials say the government has managed to attract highest-ever bids in the auction of Pakistani debt in its first venture into foreign capital markets. Bids worth over $8 billion were received…

ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar presented the budget for the year 2017-18 on Friday. While taxes were imposed on some goods, others were granted relief by the government and their prices were reduced.  1. Good news for mobile phone users! For those of us who love to chat on mobile phones and better yet, purchase…

WASHINGTON: Shortly after Egypt’s 2011 uprising ended with the fall of President Hosni Mubarak, prominent Egyptian investor Ahmed Heikal said: “If we get things right, we could be Turkey in 10 years. If we get them wrong, we could be Pakistan in 18 months.” Everyone understood the subtext: Turkey was the model; Pakistan was the…