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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 / Sep 29	277.32
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Sep 29	277.12
USD to Japanese Yen / Sep 30	157.03
USD to Swiss Franc / Sep 30	0.83
Pound Sterling to USD / Sep 30	1.32
Euro to USD / Sep 30	1.13
SOFR % / Sep 28	3.90

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Sep 29	7,670.84
Nasdaq / Sep 29	26,797.54
Dow Jones / Sep 29	51,349.92
India Sensex / Sep 30	72,729.39
Tokyo Nikkei / Sep 30	66,728.56
Hang Seng / Sep 30	24,534.37
FTSE 100 / Sep 30	10,714.17
Germany DAX 30 / Sep 30	25,546.29
France CAC40 / Sep 30	8,055.71

Item	Value
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Sep 29	18,780
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Sep 29	374,945
Petrol/Litre / Sep 30	387.54
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Sep 30	89.69
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Sep 30	4,309.98
Diesel/Litre / Sep 30	402.24
Cotton US¢/pound / Sep 30	79.18

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Colony Tex.Mills Ltd / Sep 30 Colony Textile Mills Limited(CTM)	7.26 ▲ 1 (15.97%)
Kohinoor Spinning / Sep 30 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	5.73 ▲ 0.77 (15.52%)
Lse Spac-I Ltd. / Sep 30 Lse Spac-I Limited(SPAC1)	20.41 ▲ 1.86 (10.03%)
Tri-Star Mutual / Sep 30 Tri-Star Mutual Fund Limited(TSMF)	16.57 ▲ 1.51 (10.03%)
Sindh Modaraba / Sep 30 Sindh Modaraba(SINDM)	33.28 ▲ 3.03 (10.02%)
Ghazi Fabrics / Sep 30 Ghazi Fabrics International Limited(GFIL)	26.38 ▲ 2.4 (10.01%)
Asim Textile / Sep 30 Asim Textile Mills Limited(ASTM)	113.96 ▲ 10.36 (10%)
Dadex Eternit / Sep 30 Dadex Eternit Limited(DADX)	150.32 ▲ 13.67 (10%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Sep 30 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	29.04 ▲ 2.64 (10%)
Oilboy Energy / Sep 30 Oilboy Energy Limited(OBOY)	18.59 ▲ 1.69 (10%)

Stock	Price
Ashfaq Textile / Sep 30 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	50.57 ▼ -5.62 (-10%)
Ghani Chemworld Limited(PRS) / Sep 30 Ghani Chemworld Limited(PRS)(GCWLPRS)	118.83 ▼ -13.16 (-9.97%)
Burj Clean Energy Modaraba / Sep 30 Burj Clean Energy Modaraba(GEM)(GEMBCEM)	11.25 ▼ -1.15 (-9.27%)
The Thal Ind.Corp. / Sep 30 The Thal Industries Corporation Limited(TICL)	918.13 ▼ -92.07 (-9.11%)
Pakistan Services / Sep 30 Pakistan Services Limited(PSEL)	1,019.63 ▼ -99.15 (-8.86%)
Mandviwala / Sep 30 Mandviwala Mauser Plastic Industries(MWMP)	77.07 ▼ -7.14 (-8.48%)
S.G.Power / Sep 30 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	23.41 ▼ -1.84 (-7.29%)
D.M. Corporation / Sep 30 D.M. Corporation Limited(DMC)	165.33 ▼ -11.63 (-6.57%)
Cordoba Logistics / Sep 30 Cordoba Logistics & Ventures Limited(CLVL)	28.32 ▼ -1.94 (-6.41%)
EMCO Industries / Sep 30 Emco Industries Limited(EMCO)	32.10 ▼ -1.93 (-5.67%)

Stock	Volume
Pak Int.Bulk / Sep 30 Pakistan International Bulk Terminal(PIBTL)	73,446,994 ▲ 0.11
Kohinoor Spinning / Sep 30 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	58,387,095 ▲ 0.77
Tasdeeq Info. Serv. / Sep 30 Tasdeeq Information Services Limited(TISL)	50,882,891 ▼ -0.09
Cnergyico PK / Sep 30 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	28,308,841 ▲ 0.03
D.S. Ind. Ltd. / Sep 30 D.S. Industries Limited(DSIL)	21,823,804 ▲ 1.27
Arif Habib Corp / Sep 30 Arif Habib Corporation Limited(AHCL)	17,873,579 ▲ 0.1
Pak Refinery / Sep 30 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	17,817,038 ▲ 0.45
WorldCall Telecom / Sep 30 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	17,431,935 ▼ -0.01
S.G.Power / Sep 30 S.G. Power Limited(SGPL)	16,575,953 ▼ -1.84
F. Nat.Equities / Sep 30 First National Equities Limited(FNEL)	14,238,200 ▲ 0

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