Proposes to more than double the spending on education and health, reduce fertility rate by half
Read MoreProposes to more than double the spending on education and health, reduce fertility rate by half
Read More
March 18, 2019
The GDP will slow down and job market will remain tight, predicts the research firm
Read More
March 13, 2019
The dollar has been hovering between Rs139 and Rs140 for a month now
Read More
January 15, 2019
Our economic indicators are now improving
Read More
December 4, 2018
Pakistan’s largest startup event ropes in 50 institutional investors
Read More
November 10, 2018
Eating chicken is going to be more expensive now
Read More
November 2, 2018
Pakistan now ranks 136th on the list
Read More
October 31, 2018
Findings revealed in SCB’s Emerging Affluent Study 2018
Read More
October 29, 2018
Govt is currently negotiating with IMF
Read More
October 24, 2018
Pakistan has the world’s fourth largest IT workforce
Read More
October 18, 2018
In the open market it was traded above Rs135
Read More
October 10, 2018
Going to the IMF was not a part of our policy, he said
Read More
October 9, 2018
It is only a matter of when, and not if
Read More
October 5, 2018
Is a voter born to elevate politicians to assemblies
Read More
October 2, 2018
Pakistan has gone to the IMF repeatedly since the late 1980s
Read More
October 1, 2018
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…
Read More
September 9, 2018
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…
Read More
July 8, 2018
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…
Read More
November 30, 2017
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…
Read More
May 26, 2017
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…
Read More
February 22, 2017