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FY26 budget: Tax, non-tax revenue: 4 base categories identified

ISLAMABAD: The budget circular for fiscal year 2025-26 calls for a new set of information to identify and tag green/...

Updated 10 Jan, 2025 03:16pm

Business & Finance

FBR invites proposals for budget FY2025-26

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has directed Inland Revenue field formations and business community to...

Published 09 Jan, 2025 07:26am

Business & Finance

Oman expects $1.6 billion budget deficit this year, state news agency reports

DUBAI: Oman expects a 620 million rial ($1.61 billion) deficit in its 2025 budget, with total spending up 1.3% from...

Published 02 Jan, 2025 01:26pm

Q1 figures revised: MoF posts Rs360bn cumulative provincial surplus

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance has revised the fiscal operations’ figures for the first quarter (Q1) of the...

Updated 16 Nov, 2024 09:29am

Macro-fiscal forecasts for budget: IMF asks govt to strengthen capacity of FD

Notes that current organisation of the Finance Division is relatively fragmented and presents an obstacle to achieving a more strategic approach to budgeting

Updated 16 Nov, 2024 09:08pm

Supplementary grants: IMF seeks to limit govt discretion

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan to initiate legal changes, required to limit the...

Updated 16 Nov, 2024 09:08pm

Markets

Pound set for worst weekly losses after budget jolt

LONDON: The pound stabilised on Friday after a volatile few sessions, but still headed for its longest stretch of...

Published 04 Nov, 2024 03:29am

Business & Finance

1.4pc of GDP: Q1 ends with Rs1.696trn budget balance

ISLAMABAD: The government closed first quarter of current fiscal year 2024-25 with overall budget balance of Rs1.696...

Published 01 Nov, 2024 06:51am

Business & Finance

IMF cuts inflation forecast to 9.5pc: Aurangzeb

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund has lowered its inflation forecast for Pakistan for the current year by...

Published 01 Nov, 2024 06:51am

Business & Finance

Proposed mini-budget rejected: Govt urged to slash power rates by 9pc

LAHORE: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry's top officials, Zakki Ejaz and SM Tanveer,...

Published 18 Oct, 2024 07:43am

Business & Finance

‘Mini-budget possibility decreasing due to tax reforms’

KARACHI: Chairman of the FPCCI Advisory Board and National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen...

Published 09 Oct, 2024 08:50am

World

France’s debt weighs heavier ahead of budget debate

PARIS: France’s vast public debt pile grew in the second quarter, official figures showed, as Prime Minister ...

Published 30 Sep, 2024 07:06am

Senior economist says a ‘maxi budget’ will be unavoidable

ISLAMABAD: With conventional foreign financing lines largely dry off and expecting a massive shortfall in revenue,...

Updated 30 Sep, 2024 08:57am

Adverse impact of budget on refineries policy: PD and FBR preparing a viable solution

ISLAMABAD: The Petroleum Division and the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) are reportedly preparing a viable solution...

Updated 23 Aug, 2024 09:24am

Opinion

Budgetary outcome in 2023-24

The statistics on the outcome of fiscal operations by the federal and provincial governments in 2023-24 were ...

Updated 13 Aug, 2024 07:40am

Editorials

Another IMF precondition met

EDITORIAL: Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told reporters on the side-lines of the Senate Parliamentary...

Published 08 Aug, 2024 06:22am

Opinion

Medium-term budget strategy

The Federal Ministry of Finance has released the Medium-Term Budget Strategy Statement for the period, 2024-25 to...

Published 06 Aug, 2024 06:40am

Opinion

Economy: durable solutions remain elusive

The FY25 budget presents challenges for everyone, with few economic actors benefiting. Despite compromises due to...

Updated 05 Aug, 2024 08:41am

FAs’ hiring, other tasks: Privatisation ministry seeks a budget of Rs8.169bn

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Privatisation has sought a budget of Rs 8.169 billion for its privatisation-related...

Updated 01 Aug, 2024 10:21am

BR Research

Circling the drain

Inflation was fairly tamed, a second policy rate cut well in play, and after a particularly gruelling exercise of...

Published 30 Jul, 2024 06:46am

Pakistan

Pakistan’s salaried group comes out on the streets, but after work hours

Such is Pakistan’s salaried group protesting power that it took to the streets in Karachi at 5:30pm – after work...

Published 24 Jul, 2024 12:44am

Opinion

Thoughts on the provincial budgets

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) budget was announced on 25 May, two and a half weeks before the federal budget was ...

Updated 15 Jul, 2024 08:14am

Opinion

Don’t manage; coach them

Manage the crisis. Manage the budget. Manage the meeting. Manage the demand. All of this is the core of managing...

Published 10 Jul, 2024 03:14am

Opinion

Dancing on a volcano

Ten days into the new fiscal year, the FY25 budget is already in disarray. Amid calls for a nationwide strike, the...

Published 10 Jul, 2024 03:14am

Editorials

Cracks in the coalition?

EDITORIAL: A new trend of inter-ministerial disputes spilling out into the open seems to be developing, which...

Published 10 Jul, 2024 03:14am

Business & Finance

‘People finding it harder & harder to live with this budget’

KARACHI: Chairman of FPCCI Advisory Board and National Business Group Pakistan, President Pakistan Businessmen and...

Published 10 Jul, 2024 03:14am

Opinion

An IMF budget or not?

Several prominent federal ministers publicly stated that the taxation measures approved by parliament on 28 June ...

Updated 08 Jul, 2024 08:43am

OMAP concerned at budget impacts on industry

LAHORE: The Oil Marketing Association of Pakistan (OMAP) has expressed concerns about the recent budget announcement...

Updated 08 Jul, 2024 09:23am

Opinion

Economic policy, federal budget and role of opposition

’…the existence of the opposition is ‘nearly the most distinctive characteristic of democracy’. In parliamentary...

Published 05 Jul, 2024 03:17am

Editorials

The budget and the IMF

EDITORIAL: The Minister for State for Finance and Revenue Ali Pervaiz Malik has stated that the point of pushing...

Published 05 Jul, 2024 03:17am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jan 21	278.88
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jan 21	278.78
USD to Japanese Yen / Jan 21	155.54
USD to Swiss Franc / Jan 21	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Jan 21	1.23
Euro to USD / Jan 21	1.04

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jan 17	5,996.66
Nasdaq / Jan 17	19,630.20
Dow Jones / Jan 17	43,487.83
India Sensex / Jan 21	76,270.33
Tokyo Nikkei / Jan 21	39,027.98
Hang Seng / Jan 21	20,098.89
FTSE 100 / Jan 21	8,529.98
Germany DAX 30 / Jan 21	20,988.55

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jan 20	18,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jan 20	242,541
Petrol/Litre / Jan 21	256.13
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jan 21	77.24
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jan 21	2,724.49
Diesel/Litre / Jan 21	260.95

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Jan 21 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	9.60 ▲ 1.00 (11.63%)
Equity Modaraba / Jan 21 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.54 ▲ 0.34 (10.62%)
Waves Home Appliances / Jan 21 Waves Home Appliances Limited(WAVESAPP)	11.30 ▲ 1.03 (10.03%)
786 Invest Ltd / Jan 21 786 Investments Limited(786)	10.98 ▲ 1.00 (10.02%)
Globe Residency / Jan 21 Globe Residency REIT(GRR)	17.36 ▲ 1.58 (10.01%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jan 21 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	25.06 ▲ 2.28 (10.01%)
Olympia Mills / Jan 21 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	35.65 ▲ 3.24 (10.00%)
Pak Engineering / Jan 21 Pakistan Engineering Company Limited(PECO)	671.22 ▲ 61.02 (10.00%)
Shahtaj Sugar / Jan 21 Shahtaj Sugar Mills Limited(SHJS)	108.90 ▲ 9.90 (10.00%)

Stock	Price
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	45.21 ▼ -5.02 (-9.99%)
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	16.62 ▼ -1.62 (-8.88%)
D.M. Textile / Jan 21 D.M. Textile Mills Limited(DMTX)	64.32 ▼ -6.22 (-8.82%)
S.G.Power / Jan 21 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	9 ▼ -0.81 (-8.26%)
Dadabhoy Cement / Jan 21 Dadabhoy Cement Industries Limited(DBCI)	5.10 ▼ -0.43 (-7.78%)
Sanghar Sugar / Jan 21 Sanghar Sugar Mills Limited(SANSM)	23.05 ▼ -1.94 (-7.76%)
ZIL Limited / Jan 21 ZIL Limited(ZIL)	226.01 ▼ -18.99 (-7.75%)
Khyber Textile / Jan 21 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	526 ▼ -43.96 (-7.71%)
Gulistan Sp. / Jan 21 Gulistan Spinning Mills Limited(GUSM)	13 ▼ -1.03 (-7.34%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jan 21 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	111,866,059 ▲ 0.44
Bank Makramah / Jan 21 Bank Makramah Limited(BML)	69,297,556 ▲ 0.05
WorldCall Telecom / Jan 21 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	64,182,488 ▼ -0.09
Lotte Chemical / Jan 21 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	59,473,543 ▼ -0.94
Fauji Cement / Jan 21 Fauji Cement Company Limited(FCCL)	51,882,881 ▲ 0.34
Hascol Petrol / Jan 21 Hascol Petroleum Limited(HASCOL)	24,273,766 ▼ -0.39
Citi Pharma Ltd / Jan 21 Citi Pharma Ltd.(CPHL)	23,353,008 ▼ -1.60
Dewan Motors / Jan 21 Dewan Farooque Motors Limited(DFML)	22,896,108 ▼ -5.02
Ghani Chem. Ind. / Jan 21 Ghani Chemical Industries Limited(GCIL)	21,890,802 ▼ -1.62

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