Inflationary spiral remains a problem EDITORIAL: Consumer Price Index (CPI) for January 2024 declined by 1.4 percentage points against the previous month... Updated 07 Feb, 2024 06:12am
Editorials Soaring govt borrowing: grim fiscal reality EDITORIAL: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) reported a statistic that should send alarm bells ringing throughout the... Published 28 Dec, 2023 04:52am
Editorials Macroeconomic indicators not satisfactory EDITORIAL: External borrowing failed to meet the budgeted target by 51 percent as per data released by the Pakistan... Published 21 Dec, 2023 03:54am
Editorials Monetary policy blues EDITORIAL: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its meeting of 12 December 2023 kept the discount rate unchanged... Published 14 Dec, 2023 05:24am
Editorials Modest upturn in the economy EDITORIAL: The stock market benchmark, yet again, crossed another psychological barrier, this time of 66,000 points,... Published 12 Dec, 2023 05:28am
Editorials The external resource shortfall EDITORIAL: The budgeted 6 billion dollars from the commercial banking sector abroad and through issuance of... Published 28 Nov, 2023 04:56am
Editorials Woeful rupee slide EDITORIAL: The interbank rupee-dollar parity registered at 287.85 on 14 November 2023 – a strengthening from the... Published 16 Nov, 2023 05:39am
Editorials PML-N has helped country avert default? EDITORIAL: Nawaz Sharif, the undisputed leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), resident in the UK for ... Published 26 Sep, 2023 06:33am
Print Moody’s disputes govt’s growth assumption Says Government of Pakistan’s budget lacks major revenue-raising or spending-containment measures to alleviate intense government liquidity pressures Updated 16 Jun, 2023 08:54am
Opinion Domestic and foreign savings: Government must cease reliance National savings rate is an important indicator of an economy’s financial health, and its identity with investment... Published 29 May, 2023 04:27am
Editorials Expenditure must be curtailed EDITORIAL: The government is in the throes of an acute dollar and rupee shortage (attributable to lack of fiscal... Updated 10 Jan, 2023 06:42am
Business & Finance Market misery deals sovereign wealth funds historic setback in 2022 LONDON: Heavy falls in stock and bond markets over the last year have cut the combined value of the world’s... Published 01 Jan, 2023 12:49pm
Opinion 2023: Disappointments & hopes Year 2022 is bidding farewell to Pakistan leaving behind some unpleasant memories, natural disaster in the form of... Updated 30 Dec, 2022 06:45am
Print Forex reserves fall by $342m KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves further fell by $342 million due to external debt... Published 14 Oct, 2022 03:39am
Editorials State of the economy EDITORIAL: The strengthening of the Pakistani rupee vis-a-vis the dollar since the appointment of Ishaq Dar as the... Published 11 Oct, 2022 05:54am
Opinion ‘Environmentally sustainable’ bonds Pakistan faces a significant challenge to finance its large trade deficits and external debt repayments. This is... Published 03 Oct, 2022 06:16am
Pakistan Pakistan seeking debt relief from bilateral creditors, not commercial bondholders, says Miftah Remarks come after bonds slumped to just half their face value on Friday Updated 23 Sep, 2022 08:10pm
Editorials Trade in currencies other than in USD EDITORIAL: The US dollar hegemony over world trade was established during the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 when... Published 23 Sep, 2022 05:50am
Pakistan Agreements worth $11.362bn signed in 3 quarters of FY22 ISLAMABAD: The country has signed new agreements worth $11.362 billion as commitments during the first three ... Updated 05 Jul, 2022 09:54am
Print Russia, rejecting default, tells investors to go to western financial agents MOSCOW: Russia rejected claims on Monday that is had defaulted on its external debt for the first time in more than ... Updated 28 Jun, 2022 09:36am
Business & Finance Depository Russia planned to service Eurobonds halts euro transactions MOSCOW: Russia’s National Settlement Depository (NSD), which Moscow had planned to use to service the country’s... Published 06 Jun, 2022 08:14am
Print 1HFY22: $8.48bn commitment agreements inked Economic Affairs Division releases quarterly report on foreign economic assistance for July–December 2021 Updated 13 May, 2022 09:25am
Print Raising loans from world capital markets: MoF given one-time umbrella permission ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet has reportedly granted one-time umbrella permission to the Finance Ministry to raise... Updated 22 Feb, 2022 09:39am
Pakistan ‘Staff supports scaling-up of social spending,’ says IMF ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the launch of new programmes outside Pakistan’s... Published 06 Feb, 2022 04:42am
Editorials Sukuk satisfaction EDITORIAL: The government of Pakistan is issuing its fourth sukuk in the international debt market. The timing of... Published 21 Jan, 2022 05:27am
Opinion The entity is bankrupt: surgery is required—II The most authentic document on Pakistan’s (organized) economy is the Pakistan Economic Survey. The Survey for... Updated 29 Dec, 2021 03:59pm
Editorials Economy has come to a critical juncture EDITORIAL: The Cabinet is expected to consider and approve today a draft finance bill envisaging not only the... Updated 28 Dec, 2021 09:40am
Print SBP explains how economic rebound achieved in FY21 State Bank of Pakistan releases its Annual Report on the State of Pakistan’s Economy reviewing the fiscal year 2020-21 Updated 25 Nov, 2021 09:24am
Opinion The rupee slide A misconception doing the rounds in the media is that the rupee is market based with demand and supply determining... Published 01 Nov, 2021 05:02am
Print Rs2.983trn fiscal deficit financed through domestic debt ISLAMABAD: The federal government mainly relied on domestic borrowing (debt market) to finance the fiscal deficit... Updated 02 Oct, 2021 09:55am