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BR RESEARCH: LSM recovery gathers real depth

After years of stop-start recoveries, Large-Scale Manufacturing is now exhibiting momentum that is difficult to...

Updated 19 Jan, 2026 08:19am

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Pakistan’s GDP growth expected to stay at 3%: World Bank

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s GDP growth is projected to remain at 3 percent in fiscal year 2025–26 before rising to 3.4...

Updated 14 Jan, 2026 08:47am

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EDITORIAL: Pricing industry out of the economy

EDITORIAL: The Pakistan Business Council’s (PBC’s) warning on industrial competitiveness, set out in an urgent...

Updated 27 Dec, 2025 07:15am

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Govt taking steps to cut cost of doing business: Kayani

ISLAMABAD: Acknowledging the high cost of doing business in the country, Minister of State for Finance Bilal Azhar...

Published 16 Dec, 2025 06:04am

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Aurangzeb unveils tariff overhaul plan to strengthen industry

Finance minister projects 3.5% economic growth for Pakistan this year

Updated 27 Nov, 2025 08:42am

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The limitations of power sector privatisation

Despite poorly planned generation and transmission, stranded generation capacity, high capacity payments, technical...

Updated 04 Aug, 2025 06:50am

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India’s finance ministry wants lower energy prices for green steel incentives

NEW DELHI: India’s finance ministry wants green hydrogen prices to soften before deciding on financial support for...

Published 05 Jun, 2025 06:08am

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IMF lowers GDP growth forecast to 2.6% for Pakistan

Says core inflation elevated at around 9%

Updated 19 May, 2025 03:31pm

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Finance Division outlook: YoY LSM slump shows underlying weaknesses

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Division has warned that the year on year (YoY) decline in Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM)...

Updated 26 Mar, 2025 02:24pm

BR Research

Inflation plummets, but pain persists

Inflation continues its downward trajectory, with the headline number dropping to a nine-year low of 1.5 percent in...

Published 05 Mar, 2025 07:22am

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Govt’s economic team blamed for hike in inflation

ISLAMABAD: The government’s economic management team has taken a curious stand on the very damaging issue of...

Updated 03 Mar, 2025 09:17am

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Positive GDP growth rate unlikely?

Dr Hafeez Pasha says this is due to negative growth in the large-scale manufacturing industries and a decline in major agriculture crops

Updated 23 Dec, 2024 10:51am

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Blaming IMF for inflation!

EDITORIAL: In response to a query from a member of the Treasury benches, Tahira Aurangzeb, the Ministry of Finance...

Published 13 Dec, 2024 07:27am

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Towards ‘Take and Pay’ contract settlement

Energy prices have increased tremendously which has created controversy and unrest in the country. IPP (Independent...

Published 18 Oct, 2024 06:58am

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High energy prices hitting the poor hardest: World Bank

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has revealed that high energy prices in Pakistan disproportionately impact the poor, as...

Published 11 Oct, 2024 06:30am

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CTBCM’s impact: a promise of affordable and reliable electricity?

The potential transition of Pakistan’s power sector to a competitive wholesale electricity market under the...

Published 04 Oct, 2024 09:30pm

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Country’s energy woes

Energy sector issues risk further deepening Pakistan’s socio-economic divides as recent years have witnessed an...

Updated 30 Sep, 2024 09:02am

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Utter madness

Pakistan’s economic management, particularly its treatment of export-oriented industries, is nothing short of...

Published 19 Sep, 2024 06:37am

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Policy rate cut yet again as inflation cools

KARACHI: As per expectations, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday...

Updated 13 Sep, 2024 09:21am

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Tax burdens and fiscal discipline

After an inflation-ridden Fiscal Year 2023-24 (“FY24”), wherein the average inflation for the FY24 was 23.4%,...

Published 04 Sep, 2024 07:06am

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No intention to tax imported solar panels, says Leghari

Federal Minister for Power Sardar Owais Ahmed Khan Leghari said the incumbent government has no intention to impose...

Updated 29 Aug, 2024 10:26pm

Business & Finance

FPCCI wants cut in electricity tariffs

KARACHI: Vice President and Regional Chairman of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry...

Published 29 Aug, 2024 06:53am

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Pakistan Oilfields announces significant hydrocarbon find in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Pakistan Oilfields Limited (POL), an oil and gas exploration company, announced further testing results from the...

Updated 19 Aug, 2024 04:35pm

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Investment in Pakistan: Govt urged to collaborate with FPCCI

LAHORE: S M Tanveer, Patron-in-Chief of the United Business Group (UBG) and former Punjab Minister, has made a...

Published 16 Aug, 2024 06:56am

Business & Finance

‘Current power price harmful for production, business, exports’

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

Published 14 Aug, 2024 06:40am

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

BR Research

Pakistan’s textile in a brave new world

Exchange rate, energy prices, or pricing in the global market – something will have to give, and fast. Despite fears...

Published 22 Jul, 2024 08:23am

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Up to 200 units of consumption: PM Shehbaz announces Rs50bn power subsidy for 25mn households

Says time has come for 'elite to make sacrifices'

Updated 09 Jul, 2024 09:32pm

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E&Ps look to invest $5bn in Pakistan’s energy sector: govt statement

Delegation meets PM Shehbaz Sharif who forms committee headed by deputy premier Ishaq Dar

Updated 06 Jul, 2024 07:53pm

BR Research

WPI bottomed out – what is next?

The single-digit Wholesale Price Index (WPI) expectedly lasted only a month, as June 2024 saw the WPI at 10.6...

Published 04 Jul, 2024 08:36am