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Pakistan plans Eurobond issuance in 2026: Bloomberg

Development comes as Pakistan push to diversify funding sources, says the report

Updated 13 Nov, 2025 10:05pm

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After $500mn settlement, Pakistan assures smooth $1.3bn Eurobond repayment next year

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb on Thursday said that Pakistan is ‘well-positioned’ to repay a $1.3 billion...

Updated 02 Oct, 2025 10:18pm

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Pakistan repays $500mn Eurobond on time: Ministry of Finance

In a key development, Pakistan has successfully repaid its $500 million Eurobond that matured on September 30, 2025,...

Updated 01 Oct, 2025 10:38pm

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July FDI up 7pc to $208m YoY

KARACHI: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Pakistan rose by 7 percent in the first month of this fiscal year...

Updated 20 Aug, 2025 08:44am

Business & Finance

Pakistan’s three Eurobonds trade at over $1 premium for first time in years

KARACHI: For the first time in recent history, Pakistan’s three Eurobonds are trading at a premium price of over $1...

Published 30 Jul, 2025 08:34pm

Pakistan

Pakistan’s economy pulled off ‘macroeconomic miracle’ in past two years: Barron’s

Barron’s, an American weekly magazine and newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, has lauded Pakistan’s...

Updated 14 May, 2025 11:05pm

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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