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Pakistan’s central govt debt decreases marginally in February: SBP

Major decrease witnessed in central government external debt and short-term domestic debt

Updated 04 Apr, 2024 06:31pm

Editorials

Increase in debt burden

EDITORIAL: Total domestic and external debt stocks rose by 6 percent during the first seven months of the current...

Published 09 Mar, 2024 04:59am

EAD explains how borrowing can be productive

Pakistan signs new agreements worth $642 million as commitments

Updated 07 Mar, 2024 09:53am

‘Extensive’ borrowing in foreign currency: Two govts blamed for worsening external debt

Acting finance minister says Pakistan's external debt significantly increased as a result of PTI and PDM borrowing forex during the past five years

Updated 14 Jan, 2024 07:40pm

Debt management: FD advocates balanced approach

ISLAMABAD: Fiscal discipline is essential to maintain primary surplus as total public debt/revenue and debt...

Updated 02 Sep, 2023 03:08pm

Business & Finance

Public debt stands at Rs59,247bn in March

ISLAMABAD: Finance Ministry has stated that the total public debt stood at Rs59,247 billion in March 2023 with...

Published 01 Sep, 2023 05:41am

Business & Finance

Forex reserves fall $131m

KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves fell by $131 million during the last week due to...

Published 25 Aug, 2023 06:34am

Jul-Mar FY23: New loan pacts worth $7.228bn signed with development partners: EAD

ISLAMABAD: A prudent external debt management strategy coupled with strong institutional arrangements is necessary...

Updated 22 Aug, 2023 09:27am

Business & Finance

IMF projects increase in external debt

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected an increase in Pakistan’s external debt to reach...

Published 19 Jul, 2023 03:21am

Business & Finance

Challenges of inflation, external payments: SBP governor explains IMF SBA’s efficacy

KARACHI: State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Jameel Ahmad Tuesday said the country is facing two key challenges of...

Published 05 Jul, 2023 06:00am

Business & Finance

External debt: business community leader explains enormity of challenge

KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan and President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum ...

Published 04 Jul, 2023 05:07am

Editorials

Living up to our own track record

EDITORIAL: We have yet again failed to complete an IMF programme, which perhaps was the toughest one for the...

Published 03 Jul, 2023 06:04am

Dar concedes preponderance of external debt

Finance Minister says govt would negotiate with bilateral countries for rescheduling of debt with the request to backload the principal amount and payment of servicing

Updated 11 Jun, 2023 12:22pm

Perspectives

Pakistan ‘borrows’ growth from its future

Pakistan’s external debt repayment problem is attracting more attention than the base problem of rapidly increasing...

Published 30 May, 2023 04:43pm

Dar explains country’s debt burden

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Wednesday that total debt – both domestic and external debt – from...

Updated 25 May, 2023 02:33pm

Business & Finance

‘Pakistan facing difficult situation due to external debt’

KARACHI: Pakistan from the point of view of external debt is facing real difficult situation as it is among the 15...

Published 28 Apr, 2023 06:08am

Pakistan

Rising external debt driving Pakistan's economic woes, says UN

The United Nations has said Pakistan is in the eye of a polycrisis as the country’s external debt almost doubled...

Updated 13 Apr, 2023 06:21pm

Pakistan

IMF agreement to be inked soon, reiterates Dar in National Assembly

Finance minister tables bill in parliament seeking approval for election funds
Says national and provincial elections should be held at the same time, under a caretaker setup

Updated 10 Apr, 2023 07:16pm

Opinion

Galloping inflation

Pakistan is seeing today an unprecedented hike in the rate of inflation. The CPI has risen on a year-to-year basis ...

Published 07 Mar, 2023 03:16am

Country needs to repay $3bn debt in five months: SBP

KARACHI: Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Jameel Ahmad has said that Pakistan is out of default as major...

Updated 24 Jan, 2023 08:52am

Opinion

Stinking political quagmire

The topmost immediate requirements to take the economy out of the tailspin are political clarity and certainty,...

Published 16 Jan, 2023 06:51am

Pakistan repays over $1bn external debt

KARACHI: The country has successfully repaid over one-billion-dollar external debt to international financial...

Updated 08 Jan, 2023 11:26am

$15.722bn newpacts signed: Country received $16.974bn foreign assistance: EAD

ISLAMABAD: The country received foreign assistance of $16.974 billion while it signed new agreements worth $15.722...

Updated 29 Dec, 2022 08:48am

Pakistan

PBC urges govt to seek 'professional help' to renegotiate sovereign debts

The Pakistan Business Council (PBC), a business policy advocacy platform, has urged the government to seek...

Updated 19 Dec, 2022 04:15pm

Business & Finance

World Bank puts country’s external debt stock by end-2021 at $130.433bn

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has estimated Pakistan’s total external debt stocks at $130.433 billion by end-2021...

Published 07 Dec, 2022 07:01am

Poor countries’ debt servicing costliest: World Bank

NEW YORK: The poorest countries in the world now spend over a tenth of their export income to service external debt,...

Updated 07 Dec, 2022 09:47am

World

Developing economies’ debt more than doubled over decade: World Bank

WASHINGTON: The external debt of developing economies has more than doubled from a decade ago to $9 trillion in...

Published 06 Dec, 2022 07:37pm

Business & Finance

Former finance minister suggests rescheduling of external debt

KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) economic team has suggested immediate rescheduling of entire external debt...

Updated 04 Dec, 2022 12:45pm

Forex reserves fall $267m

KARACHI: The country’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves fell $ 267 million during the last week because of...

Published 02 Dec, 2022 06:31am

Business & Finance

Annual report on foreign assistance: Debt can be productive if used for creating assets: EAD

ISLAMABAD: The Economic Affairs Division (EAD) stressed that a prudent external debt management strategy coupled ...

Published 30 Nov, 2022 05:53am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Apr 18	278.62
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Apr 18	278.32
USD to Japanese Yen / Apr 18	154.30
USD to Swiss Franc / Apr 18	0.91
Pound Sterling to USD / Apr 18	1.25
Euro to USD / Apr 18	1.07

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Apr 17	5022.21
Nasdaq / Apr 17	15683.37
FTSE 100 / Apr 17	7847.99
Dow Jones / Apr 17	37735.31
Germany DAX 30 / Apr 17	17770.02
France CAC40 / Apr 17	7981.51
India Sensex / Apr 18	72965.85
Tokyo Nikkei / Apr 18	38103.03

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Apr 16	21735
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Apr 17	215964
Petrol/Litre / Apr 18	293.94
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Apr 18	82.77
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Apr 18	2374.98
Diesel/Litre / Apr 18	290.38

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Apr 18 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Apr 18 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Apr 18 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Apr 18 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Apr 18 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Apr 18 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Apr 18 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Apr 18 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Apr 18 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Apr 18 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Apr 18 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Apr 18 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Apr 18 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Apr 18 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Apr 18 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Apr 18 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Apr 18 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Apr 18 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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