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Apple Pay launches in India with Axis Bank partnership

Published 30 Sep, 2026 12:28pm

Apple Pay has also held talks with larger rivals HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, but has yet to agree commercial terms

PSX: Buying at bourse, KSE-100 settles with modest gains

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 04:03pm

Benchmark index settles at 169,969.32

Aurangzeb kicks off talks with IMF mission

Published 30 Sep, 2026 05:49am

ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday reiterated its commitment to continue implementing agreed structural reforms as...

Water shortage

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 06:09am

EDITORIAL: Reports suggest that Pakistan is bracing for 25 percent water shortage during rabi season that has raised...

Experts call for curbing illicit trade

Published 30 Sep, 2026 05:49am

LAHORE: As Pakistan engages with an International Monetary Fund mission over revenue targets and fiscal discipline...

MoF unveils action plan for IMF-supported LCBM

Published 30 Sep, 2026 05:49am

The ministry cautioned that implementation could face risks from renewed inflation and fiscal pressures

The sovereign-bank nexus and its pitfalls

Updated 30 Sep, 2026 06:36am

Every few days there is a lament in newspapers and on TV that the cash economy must be killed, and that Pakistanis...

Aurangzeb kicks off talks with IMF mission

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 09:17pm

IMF mission in Islamabad for fourth review of Pakistan’s EFF arrangement and third review of RSF

PSX: late selling at bourse, KSE-100 sheds over 800 points

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:49pm

Benchmark index settles at 169,600.40 points

JI demands lower interest rate, release of PTI prisoners

Published 29 Sep, 2026 04:48am

KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Monday demanded that the government lower the interest...

Pakistan tells IMF: Gulf war slows economy, causes revenue losses

Published 29 Sep, 2026 04:48am

ISLAMABAD: The government on Monday briefed the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) review mission that the...

Why FDI remains elusive

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:06am

EDITORIAL: Pakistan’s improving external position and better sovereign credit profile have yet to translate into the...

IMF programme’s fourth review

Updated 29 Sep, 2026 06:08am

The fourth review of the IMF Extended Fund Facility and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility is to commence...

PSX range-bound amid uncertainty

Published 28 Sep, 2026 04:13am

KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) remained cautious and range-bound during the week ended September 25,...

JI to resume ‘super long march’ from Multan if demands not met: Hafiz

Published 28 Sep, 2026 04:13am

KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman on Sunday said that his party’s protest movement against...

IMF plans more talks with Gabon in coming weeks

Published 27 Sep, 2026 10:59am

'The mission also discussed the authorities’ ambitious structural reform agenda to improve the management ⁠of public finances'

Criticality of country’s planning commission

Published 26 Sep, 2026 05:19am

Pakistan once had a development institution that looked beyond the next budget, the next political cycle and the...

‘Arteries of global economy’: At UN, PM Shehbaz says Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab must remain open

Updated 25 Sep, 2026 11:46pm

Says 'these waters must carry the promise of prosperity, not the perils of war'

EU, IMF understand need to help Ukraine finance budget gap, Zelenskiy says

Published 25 Sep, 2026 03:52pm

Ukraine is seeking an additional $27 billion from partners this year for defence