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• Finally, $7bn EFF approved by IMF board

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• IMF-backed reform agenda to accelerate Pakistan’s economic growth in FY25: ADB

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• ‘Employees part ways’: Siemens Pakistan announces ‘Rs556mn strategic transformation’

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• At least 12 including cops injured in Quetta blast targeting police van

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• Mari Petroleum begins data centre initiative in Karachi

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• OGDCL discovers hydrocarbon reserves in Sindh

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• No new taxation measures or mini-budget under study: FBR

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• July-August: $714.74m borrowed from multiple sources

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