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IMF and Pakistan

GST or duty on imported DAP fertilizer: Body to analyse proposal of industry

ISLAMABAD: The government has constituted a committee to analyse a proposal of the domestic industry to impose...

Updated 03 Jan, 2023 09:07am

Editorials

Adherence to IMF deal is an imperative

EDITORIAL: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif while addressing a press conference stated that Pakistan has no other ...

Published 03 Jan, 2023 03:25am

PKR registers losses

KARACHI: The rupee registered losses throughout the previous week, ending with cumulative depreciation of 0.35%...

Updated 02 Jan, 2023 08:44am

Opinion

All is far from well

The state of the economy today should be a source of serious concern to the eleven-party coalition government in...

Published 02 Jan, 2023 05:54am

Opinion

To many it sounds like PDM wants to have its cake and eat it

The plot thickens. With SBP’s (State Bank of Pakistan’s) forex reserves expected to fall below $5 billion in a...

Published 02 Jan, 2023 05:54am

Editorials

Reluctant retailers

EDITORIAL: Good luck to the Senate standing committee on finance as it tries to drag two million reluctant retailers...

Published 02 Jan, 2023 05:54am

APTMA resents hike in EFS & LTFF

ISLAMABAD: The country’s export sector has termed the increase in Export Finance Scheme (EFS) and Long-Term...

Updated 31 Dec, 2022 01:37pm

Markets

Pakistan's Rupee sees its worst year since 2008 meltdown

PKR lost 22% during 2022, depreciating from 176.51 to 226.43 against the US dollar in the inter-bank market

Updated 01 Jan, 2023 01:19pm

Opinion

2023: Disappointments & hopes

Year 2022 is bidding farewell to Pakistan leaving behind some unpleasant memories, natural disaster in the form of...

Updated 30 Dec, 2022 06:45am

Opinion

2023: year of non-neoliberal, non-austerity, counter-cyclical reform policy

Agreed, Pakistan’s credit default swap (CDS) risk has increased substantially during the current year, that it has...

Updated 30 Dec, 2022 06:28am

Editorials

Ishaq Dar’s address: misplaced optimism?

EDITORIAL: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar gave an impassioned virtual address to mark the first listing of the...

Published 30 Dec, 2022 05:50am

Virtual govt-IMF sessions on ‘regular’ basis: Aisha

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Finance, Aisha Ghaus Pasha has said that the government is holding virtual...

Updated 30 Dec, 2022 11:23am

Opinion

Energy sector reforms — I

My previous op-ed, summed up Pakistan’s gas supply position vis-à-vis the current demand, prevailing geo-political...

Published 29 Dec, 2022 05:59am

Dar addresses ebbing investor confidence

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Wednesday assured the investors that Pakistan won’t default, adding...

Updated 29 Dec, 2022 08:45am

Editorials

Foot-dragging on the pending IMF review

EDITORIAL: The market is unambiguously sending signals to the government to take appropriate measures to deal with...

Published 29 Dec, 2022 05:59am

Opinion

Low foreign inflows

The foreign exchange reserves of the SBP have plunged to $6,116 million as of 16th of December 2022. There has been ...

Published 27 Dec, 2022 06:07am

Opinion

Caution: not make privatisation appear better than it is

Privatisation has kept its relevance as a policy option in this country to this day – as a means to not only cut...