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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 / Jul 20	278.15
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 20	277.95
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 20	162.36
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 20	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 20	1.35
Euro to USD / Jul 20	1.14
SOFR % / Jul 20	3.62

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 17	7,457.69
Nasdaq / Jul 17	25,520.24
Dow Jones / Jul 17	52,146.42
India Sensex / Jul 20	77,708.52
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 20	64,141.12
Hang Seng / Jul 20	25,069.85
FTSE 100 / Jul 20	10,562.80
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 20	24,913.94
France CAC40 / Jul 20	8,361.60

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 20	84.29
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 20	18,880
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 20	363,971
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 20	4,011.10
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 20	79.24
Petrol/Litre / Jul 21	315.80
Diesel/Litre / Jul 21	360.06

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Asia Ins. / Jul 20 Asia Insurance Company Limited(ASIC)	37.90 ▲ 3.45 (10.01%)
TPL Insurance / Jul 20 TPL Insurance Limited(TPLI)	64.08 ▲ 5.83 (10.01%)
Ahmad Hassan / Jul 20 Ahmad Hassan Textile Mills Limited(AHTM)	100.21 ▲ 9.11 (10%)
Baba Farid Sugar / Jul 20 Baba Farid Sugar Mills Limited(BAFS)	460.42 ▲ 41.86 (10%)
Crescent Cotton / Jul 20 Crescent Cotton Mills Limited(CCM)	59.05 ▲ 5.37 (10%)
National Silk / Jul 20 The National Silk & Rayon Mills Limited(NSRM)	299.43 ▲ 27.22 (10%)
Olympia Mills / Jul 20 Olympia Mills Limited(OML)	118.34 ▲ 10.76 (10%)
Pak Refinery / Jul 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	49.05 ▲ 4.46 (10%)
Husein Industries / Jul 20 Husein Industries Limited(HUSI)	55 ▲ 5 (10%)
Leather Up Ltd. / Jul 20 Leather Up Limited(LEUL)	45.98 ▲ 4.18 (10%)

Stock	Price
Khairpur Sug. / Jul 20 Khairpur Sugar Mills Limited(KPUS)	1,684.32 ▼ -187.15 (-10%)
Service Textile / Jul 20 Service Industries Textiles Limited(SERT)	56.04 ▼ -6.23 (-10%)
S.G.Power / Jul 20 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	87.83 ▼ -9.76 (-10%)
Maqbool Textile / Jul 20 Maqbool Textile Mills Limited(MQTM)	33.43 ▼ -3.71 (-9.99%)
Ideal Dynamics / Jul 20 Ideal Dynamics Limited(IDEAL)	49.50 ▼ -5.25 (-9.59%)
Fateh Sports / Jul 20 Fateh Sports Wear Limited(FSWL)	136.39 ▼ -13.9 (-9.25%)
Buxly Paints / Jul 20 Buxly Paints Limited(BUXL)	173.04 ▼ -16.9 (-8.9%)
ARM Green Industries / Jul 20 ARM Green Industries Limited(ARMG)	64.63 ▼ -6.07 (-8.59%)
Elahi Cotton / Jul 20 Elahi Cotton Mills Limited(ELCM)	216.01 ▼ -20.08 (-8.51%)
Metro Steel / Jul 20 Metropolitan Steel Corporation Limited(MSCL)	22.03 ▼ -2.02 (-8.4%)

Stock	Volume
Cnergyico PK / Jul 20 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	166,059,814 ▲ 0.8
Pak Refinery / Jul 20 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	49,159,104 ▲ 4.46
TPL Properties / Jul 20 TPL Properties Limited(TPLP)	38,436,785 ▲ 0.41
Trust Sec.& Brok. / Jul 20 Trust Securities & Brokerage Limited(TSBL)	36,283,729 ▲ 0.15
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 20 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	27,615,297 ▼ -0.07
Lotte Chemical / Jul 20 Lotte Chemical Pakistan Limited(LOTCHEM)	17,575,908 ▲ 0.54
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 20 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	15,089,114 ▲ 0
B.O.Punjab / Jul 20 The Bank of Punjab(BOP)	14,202,726 ▲ 0.01
Maple Leaf Cement / Jul 20 Maple Leaf Cement Factory Limited(MLCF)	13,521,739 ▲ 0.86
F. Nat.Equities / Jul 20 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	13,125,536 ▲ 0.01

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