Public debt stands at Rs71.2trn, Aurangzeb tells NA ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Muhammad Aurangzeb, on Friday, revealed in the National Assembly... Updated 31 Aug, 2024 03:34pm
Business & Finance Foreign loans curse for Pakistan: PDP Chairman KARACHI: Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor said foreign loans are a curse for Pakistan. We pay... Published 02 Mar, 2024 04:16am
Opinion Reliance on foreign loans Economic Affairs Division in its foreign economic assistance (FEA) data disclosed a 58 percent rise in foreign loan... Updated 30 Oct, 2023 05:51am
Print Banks and FIs: MoF to do away with direct credit lines ISLAMABAD: The Finance Ministry has reportedly decided to do away with direct credit lines from banks/financial... Updated 14 Sep, 2023 09:09am
Print $7bn Chinese, Saudi deposits: Rs402bn paid as cost of rollovers Economic Affairs Division, sources say, requested ECC to accord approval for provision of Technical Supplementary Grant Updated 14 Jun, 2023 10:23am
Print Foreign loans, debt servicing: Repayment revised upward by MoEA ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Economic Affairs has revised upward by Rs402 billion repayment of short-term foreign loan... Updated 07 Jun, 2023 08:55am
Business & Finance Minister for optimum utilisation of foreign loans LAHORE: Punjab Caretaker Local Government Minister Ibrahim Murad has directed for optimum utilisation of foreign... Published 28 Apr, 2023 06:08am
Opinion Default: last hour? Negotiations with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) have entered the final round. The plans and proposals... Published 06 Feb, 2023 06:20am
Opinion Time for ‘radical’ and fast-paced economic reforms — II For more than a decade, the entire PSDP (Public Secotor Development Programme) is based on foreign loans, which... Updated 02 Feb, 2023 06:42am
Print ST collected from consumers: Businesspeople urged to deposit entire amount in exchequer ISLAMABAD: The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), Thursday, urged upon the business... Updated 06 Jan, 2023 09:03am
Print Foreign loans of IPPs: PPIB seeks guidance to replace Libor with SOFR ISLAMABAD: The Private Power Infrastructure Board (PPIB) has proposed the Finance Ministry to provide guidance... Updated 21 Dec, 2022 10:03am
Business & Finance NA informed: $5.66bn foreign loan, aid received ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly was informed on Friday that the total amount of foreign loans and aid received by... Updated 19 Nov, 2022 10:15am
Pakistan Pakistan incurs $439mn of external debt in first two months of FY23: EAD Govt has budgeted estimates of foreign assistance of $22.8bn for current financial year Updated 24 Sep, 2022 09:36pm
Pakistan JI seeks probe into fire incident at Guddu power plant LAHORE: Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami, Sirajul Haq has demanded impartial inquiry into the fire incident at Guddu Power... Published 14 Jul, 2022 05:00am
Opinion Overcoming economic woes Governments around the world try to fulfil the responsibility of creating an environment where the state generates... Published 01 Jul, 2022 06:13am
Editorials Taxing foreign lenders EDITORIAL: Interestingly, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) seems to have quite an appetite for novelties; just not... Published 18 Jun, 2022 06:00am
Opinion Economic growth amid political instability Political instability is a serious impediment to economic progress. Not only does it shorten policymakers’ ... Published 02 Jun, 2022 06:19am
Editorials The PTI govt’s debt profile EDITORIAL: Pakistan procured 12,767 million dollar loans July-March 2021-22 (provisional) against the budgeted ... Published 25 Apr, 2022 05:42am
Markets Fitch says Pakistan’s political volatility adds to external financing risk Forecasts current account deficit at around 5% of GDP (around $18.5 billion) in FY22 Updated 12 Apr, 2022 05:24pm
Pakistan BMP shows opposition to govt’s growing reliance on foreign loans LAHORE : The Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry’s Businessmen Panel (BMP) Chairman on Sunday... Published 07 Feb, 2022 05:22am
Pakistan Federal, provincial govts: LHC seeks details of foreign loans LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Tuesday called detailed of foreign loans obtained by the federal and provincial... Published 19 Jan, 2022 06:15am
Business & Finance Aug 2018 to Dec 2021: PTI govt procures $42.748bn foreign loans; $32.7bn repaid ISLAMABAD: The PTI government procured $42.748 billion foreign loans during its tenure (August 2018 to December ... Published 31 Dec, 2021 06:50am
Pakistan ‘TIOs must play their proactive role in stabilizing national economy’ FAISALABAD: Newly selected Trade & Investment Officers (TIOs) have been entrusted ambitious task to bridge... Published 12 Dec, 2021 04:19am
Pakistan ‘Mini-budget’ to bring more miseries for economy: Mian Zahid KARACHI: Chairman of National Business Group Pakistan and President Pakistan Businessmen and Intellectuals Forum ... Published 05 Dec, 2021 04:26am
Business & Finance Govt took $1.596 billion foreign loans in July alone ISLAMABAD: Pakistan incurred foreign debt of $1.596 billion from multiple financing sources in the first month ... Updated 01 Sep, 2021 11:56am
Pakistan Tarin terms Kamyab Pakistan Programme 'revolutionary initiative' ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Shaukat Tarin Saturday said the Kamyab Pakistan Programme (KPP)... Published 29 Aug, 2021 03:08am
BR Research Decline in foreign grants There is no free lunch, they say. But when it comes to developing countries, “grants” from richer nations have... Published 12 Aug, 2021 07:40am
BR Research Surge in external economic assistance Pakistan’s reliance on external economic assistance – in the form of grants and loans from bilateral,... Published 29 Jun, 2021 07:35am
Print Rs26.46trn charged expenditure laid in NA ISLAMABAD: The federal government Friday laid Rs26.46 trillion of charged expenditure included in demands for grants... Published 26 Jun, 2021 03:24am
3 imported coal-based IPPs to Thar coal: PPIB seeks details of Chinese Ad hoc Working Group on conversion