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Foreign loans

Published 14 Mar, 2026 04:55am

EDITORIAL: The Senate Standing Committee on Economic Affairs warned the Economic Affairs Division (EAD) that...

Avoid foreign loans, EAD told

Published 27 Feb, 2026 05:11am

ISLAMABAD: Raising alarm over mounting financial mismanagement, the Senate Standing Committee on Economic Affairs on...

Power Division seeks NA panel’s help on rupee cover waiver

Updated 18 Feb, 2026 09:21am

ISLAMABAD: The Power Division on Tuesday sought the support of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Power for...

Pakistan receives USD694.53m foreign assistance in July

Updated 26 Aug, 2025 09:34am

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan received a total of USD694.53 million in foreign assistance during the first month of fiscal...

Foreign loans

Published 23 Apr, 2025 06:11am

EDITORIAL: Pakistan has received 12.5 billion dollars in foreign loans during the first nine months of the current...

Sacrificed at the altar of fiscal constraint

Published 13 Jan, 2025 03:06am

EDITORIAL: Data uploaded on the website of Ministry of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives reveals that it...

Public debt stands at Rs71.2trn, Aurangzeb tells NA

Updated 31 Aug, 2024 03:34pm

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Muhammad Aurangzeb, on Friday, revealed in the National Assembly...

Foreign loans curse for Pakistan: PDP Chairman

Published 02 Mar, 2024 04:16am

KARACHI: Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor said foreign loans are a curse for Pakistan. We pay...

Reliance on foreign loans

Updated 30 Oct, 2023 05:51am

Economic Affairs Division in its foreign economic assistance (FEA) data disclosed a 58 percent rise in foreign loan...

Banks and FIs: MoF to do away with direct credit lines

Updated 14 Sep, 2023 09:09am

ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry has reportedly decided to do away with direct credit lines from banks/financial...

$7bn Chinese, Saudi deposits: Rs402bn paid as cost of rollovers

Updated 14 Jun, 2023 10:23am

Economic Affairs Division, sources say, requested ECC to accord approval for provision of Technical Supplementary Grant

Foreign loans, debt servicing: Repayment revised upward by MoEA

Updated 07 Jun, 2023 08:55am

ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Economic Affairs has revised upward by Rs402 billion repayment of short-term foreign loan...

Minister for optimum utilisation of foreign loans

Published 28 Apr, 2023 06:08am

LAHORE: Punjab Caretaker Local Government Minister Ibrahim Murad has directed for optimum utilisation of foreign...

Default: last hour?

Published 06 Feb, 2023 06:20am

Negotiations with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) have entered the final round. The plans and proposals...

Time for ‘radical’ and fast-paced economic reforms — II

Updated 02 Feb, 2023 06:42am

For more than a decade, the entire PSDP (Public Secotor Development Programme) is based on foreign loans, which...

ST collected from consumers: Businesspeople urged to deposit entire amount in exchequer

Updated 06 Jan, 2023 09:03am

ISLAMABAD: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Thursday, urged upon the business...

Foreign loans of IPPs: PPIB seeks guidance to replace Libor with SOFR

Updated 21 Dec, 2022 10:03am

ISLAMABAD: The Private Power Infrastructure Board (PPIB) has proposed the Finance Ministry to provide guidance...

NA informed: $5.66bn foreign loan, aid received

Updated 19 Nov, 2022 10:15am

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Friday that the total amount of foreign loans and aid received by...

Pakistan incurs $439mn of external debt in first two months of FY23: EAD

Updated 24 Sep, 2022 09:36pm

Govt has budgeted estimates of foreign assistance of $22.8bn for current financial year

JI seeks probe into fire incident at Guddu power plant

Published 14 Jul, 2022 05:00am

LAHORE: Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Sirajul Haq has demanded impartial inquiry into the fire incident at Guddu Power...

Overcoming economic woes

Published 01 Jul, 2022 06:13am

Governments around the world try to fulfil the responsibility of creating an environment where the state generates...

Taxing foreign lenders

Published 18 Jun, 2022 06:00am

EDITORIAL: Interestingly, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) seems to have quite an appetite for novelties; just not...

Economic growth amid political instability

Published 02 Jun, 2022 06:19am

Political instability is a serious impediment to economic progress. Not only does it shorten policymakers’ ...

The PTI govt’s debt profile

Published 25 Apr, 2022 05:42am

EDITORIAL: Pakistan procured 12,767 million dollar loans July-March 2021-22 (provisional) against the budgeted ...

Fitch says Pakistan’s political volatility adds to external financing risk

Updated 12 Apr, 2022 05:24pm

Forecasts current account deficit at around 5% of GDP (around $18.5 billion) in FY22

BMP shows opposition to govt’s growing reliance on foreign loans

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Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Nov 13	276.80 ▼ -0.01
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Nov 13	276.60 ▼ -0.01
USD to Japanese Yen / Nov 13	159.71 ▼ -0.21
USD to Swiss Franc / Nov 13	0.84 ▲ 0.003
Pound Sterling to USD / Nov 13	1.32 ▼ -0.0022
Euro to USD / Nov 13	1.10 ▼ -0.0036
SOFR % / Nov 12	3.90 ▲ 0.01

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Nov 13	7,561.67
India Sensex / Nov 13	81,592.45
Tokyo Nikkei / Nov 13	61,142.35
Nasdaq / Nov 13	25,136.27
Hang Seng / Nov 13	23,637.60
FTSE 100 / Nov 13	10,902.56
Dow Jones / Nov 13	52,347.55
Germany DAX 30 / Nov 13	26,749.95
France CAC40 / Nov 13	8,368.91

Item	Value
Petrol/Litre / Nov 14	330
Diesel/Litre / Nov 14	360
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Nov 13	88.56
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Nov 13	18,080
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Nov 13	352,911
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Nov 13	3,884.49
Cotton US¢/pound / Nov 13	82.61

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	6.07 ▲ 1 (19.72%)
Dewan Sugar / Nov 13 Dewan Sugar Mills Limited(DWSM)	8.77 ▲ 1 (12.87%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	2.64 ▲ 0.28 (11.86%)
Shabbir Tiles / Nov 13 Shabbir Tiles & Ceramics Limited(STCL)	10.10 ▲ 1 (10.99%)
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	1.38 ▲ 0.13 (10.4%)
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Nov 13 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	12.06 ▲ 1.1 (10.04%)
Unicap Modaraba / Nov 13 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	22.84 ▲ 2.08 (10.02%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Nov 13 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	82.90 ▲ 7.54 (10.01%)
Ningbo Green Light / Nov 13 Ningbo Green Light Energy Limited(NGLEL)	16.48 ▲ 1.5 (10.01%)
Zuma Resources / Nov 13 Zuma Resources Limited(ZUMA)	33.75 ▲ 3.07 (10.01%)

Stock	Price
Arpak Int. / Nov 13 Arpak International Investments Ltd.(ARPAK)	124.84 ▼ -13.87 (-10%)
First AL-Noor Mod. / Nov 13 First Al-Noor Modaraba(FANM)	12.64 ▼ -1.36 (-9.71%)
Shadman Cotton / Nov 13 Shadman Cotton Mills Limited(SHCM)	69.87 ▼ -6.73 (-8.79%)
Fateh Sports / Nov 13 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	193.60 ▼ -16.58 (-7.89%)
Asim Textile / Nov 13 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	62.73 ▼ -4.34 (-6.47%)
D.M. Corporation / Nov 13 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	151.06 ▼ -9.64 (-6%)
Bhanero Textile / Nov 13 Bhanero Textile Mills Limited(BHAT)	1,207.41 ▼ -76.42 (-5.95%)
Hira Textile / Nov 13 Hira Textile Mills Limited(HIRAT)	4.01 ▼ -0.24 (-5.65%)
J.A.Textile / Nov 13 J.A. Textile Mills Limited(JATM)	73.72 ▼ -4.26 (-5.46%)
AN Textile Mills / Nov 13 AN Textile Mills Limited(ANTM)	58.55 ▼ -3.21 (-5.2%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Nov 13 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	303,195,710 ▲ 0.13
Kohinoor Spinning / Nov 13 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	59,505,118 ▲ 0.34
LSE Financial Serv. / Nov 13 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	46,791,082 ▲ 0.28
Dost Steels Ltd. / Nov 13 Dost Steels Limited(DSL)	43,180,738 ▲ 0.37
TPL Properties / Nov 13 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	32,746,701 ▲ 0.48
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Nov 13 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	27,571,943 ▲ 0.05
F. Nat.Equities / Nov 13 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	24,996,122 ▲ 0.01
Yousuf Weaving / Nov 13 Yousaf Weaving Mills Limited(YOUW)	24,965,743 ▲ 1
Cnergyico PK / Nov 13 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	22,527,745 ▲ 0.14
Dar-es-Salaam / Nov 13 Dar-es-Salaam Textile Mills Limited(DSML)	21,467,835 ▲ 0.82

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