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Miftah Ismail

Understanding and addressing fault lines–I

The Economist in its edition of May 13-19th 2023 has pointed out that the 10-year USD-denominated sovereign bond of...

Updated 15 Jun, 2023 06:39am

Pakistan

Pakistan’s budget caught between IMF expectations and election

Former finance minister Miftah Ismail says govt will come up with a budget that is more or less in line with IMF prescriptions

Updated 07 Jun, 2023 06:18pm

Business & Finance

You don’t need AI to predict Dar’s budget speech. This is how it will likely go

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar is scheduled to announce the budget proposals this Friday. He last announced the budget...

Updated 06 Jun, 2023 11:59pm

Editorials

Monthly economic update

EDITORIAL: The release of the Economic Update and Outlook for the month of May, through a Whatsapp message to beat...

Published 05 Jun, 2023 03:27am

Opinion

The slow poisoning of economy?

Some of the budget proposals circulating in the media — especially those recommended by the reforms and revenue...

Updated 29 May, 2023 12:15pm

Editorials

Embittered Miftah has a point

EDITORIAL: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail’s idea of creating more provinces by giving each division the...

Updated 23 May, 2023 07:09am

Pakistan

Govt unaware of true extent of ongoing economic crisis: Miftah Ismail

Pakistan has always managed to avert issues and this is why the current plight is being treated 'like any other', says former finance minister

Updated 18 May, 2023 07:15pm

Opinion

When and who must table FY24 budget?

With the exact date for the next elections still not set, be it by order of the apex court or a consensus between ...

Published 01 May, 2023 03:28am

Pakistan

Govt will have to save Pakistan from default for next two years: Miftah Ismail

Former finance minister says Pakistan will need to enter another IMF programme

Updated 29 Apr, 2023 08:24pm

Editorials

The LSMI slide

EDITORIAL: Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) output suffered yet another hit in February 2023 against...

Published 19 Apr, 2023 06:36am

Pakistan

PDM, Imran Khan, chief justice and COAS need to hold talks: Shahid Khaqan

Former PM says political parties need to act before people come out on the streets

Published 15 Apr, 2023 09:00pm

Opinion

The IMF-govt trust deficit

The Pakistani public is being subjected to extremely disturbing macroeconomic indicators with each subsequent update...

Published 27 Mar, 2023 06:15am

Editorials

Dangerous impasse on numerous fronts

EDITORIAL: Overwhelming evidence indicates that all sectors are suffering from a deepening malaise of, at best,...

Published 25 Mar, 2023 06:25am

Editorials

‘Reimagining Pakistan’

EDITORIAL: Ideas about rescuing the economy, especially about ending its dependence on donor bailouts, come a dime a...

Published 20 Mar, 2023 06:12am

Opinion

Things are still difficult for the Sharifs

Miftah Ismail of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has been speaking his mind in a blunt way ever since he was...

Published 20 Mar, 2023 06:12am

Pakistan

Pakistan's ex finance chief Miftah warns against any kind of debt restructuring

Difficult task to get China and the West to sit on one table for such an endeavour, he says

Updated 16 Mar, 2023 09:46am

Opinion

Something’s gotta give

A small group of alienated members of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have...

Published 14 Mar, 2023 03:18am

Business & Finance

Country can avoid IMF only through higher exports, tax collections: Miftah

KARACHI: Former Federal Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday said that in order to avoid International Monetary...

Updated 13 Mar, 2023 09:12am

Business & Finance

Ongoing crisis result of ‘last 75 years’ mistakes’, says Miftah

KARACHI: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail has said Pakistan has reached to this state owing to the mistakes of...

Published 05 Mar, 2023 03:36am

Pakistan

Pakistan should prioritise population planning, female education: Miftah Ismail

Former finance minister says Bangladesh, Egypt and Tunisia succeeded in implementing population planning

Updated 04 Mar, 2023 06:55pm

Pakistan

Accountability court revokes non-bailable arrest warrant for Shahid Khaqan in LNG case

Warrant was issued over failure of PML-N leader to appear before the court

Updated 21 Feb, 2023 10:10pm

Opinion

PARTLY FACETIOUS: Dar doesn’t like qualified economists

“Ishaq Dar says that he has to fix the economy that was mishandled by the inexperienced Khan administration.”...

Published 17 Feb, 2023 06:00am

Opinion

After the IMF tranche

On December 16, 2021 at a Hamdard University seminar where Dr Miftah Ismail was another speaker, I had said that...

Updated 14 Feb, 2023 01:05pm

Opinion

Pakistan: grave economic distress

On 26 January 2023 inanely shackling the dollar to what was nothing but wishful thinking ended and the interbank ...

Published 13 Feb, 2023 05:57am

Pakistan

Punjab, KP assemblies: Asad hopes election dates will be announced by weekend

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) secretary general Asad Umar on Tuesday showed optimism that election dates...

Published 08 Feb, 2023 06:10am

Editorials

Symptoms of fissures

EDITORIAL: Even though there is the question of ‘ifs and buts’ engulfing the possibility of general election on...

Published 04 Feb, 2023 06:08am

Markets

Deal or default: Pakistan’s economy set for an endgame

Distressed by debt, many analysts expect 'reprofiling' rather than mass write-off of payments

Published 01 Feb, 2023 01:13pm

Business & Finance

Economic mess: embittered Miftah offers ‘solution’

KARACHI: Former finance minister Miftah Ismail Friday said that instead of depreciating the value of the dollar...

Published 28 Jan, 2023 06:20am

Pakistan

Miftah takes a dig at Dar, again

KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Miftah Ismail on Thursday took a dig at Finance Minister Ishaq...

Published 27 Jan, 2023 06:15am

Pakistan

Keeping dollar in narrow range was insanity, says Dr Miftah Ismail at IBA event

Former finance minister says black market cannot be stopped by administrative measures

Updated 27 Jan, 2023 10:58am

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jul 26	278.40
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jul 26	278.20
USD to Japanese Yen / Jul 26	153.77
USD to Swiss Franc / Jul 26	0.88
Pound Sterling to USD / Jul 26	1.29
Euro to USD / Jul 26	1.09

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jul 25	5,399.22
Nasdaq / Jul 25	17,181.72
Dow Jones / Jul 25	39,935.07
India Sensex / Jul 26	80,709.64
Tokyo Nikkei / Jul 26	37,865.35
Hang Seng / Jul 26	17,058.55
FTSE 100 / Jul 26	8,255.78
Germany DAX 30 / Jul 26	18,346.62

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jul 26	78.38
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jul 26	17,035
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jul 26	215,621
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jul 26	2,374.19
Cotton US¢/pound / Jul 26	68.62
Petrol/Litre / Jul 27	275.60

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▼ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Price
786 Invest Ltd / Jul 27 786 Investments Limited(786)	5 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abbas Sugar / Jul 27 Al-Abbas Sugar Mills Limited(AABS)	585 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Agro Allianz / Jul 27 Agro Allianz Limited(AAL)	16 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
AL-Abid Silk / Jul 27 Al-Abid Silk Mills Limited(AASM)	3.49 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Ali Asghar / Jul 27 Ali Asghar Textile Mills Limited(AATM)	2.07 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Allied Bank / Jul 27 Allied Bank Limited(ABL)	87.10 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abbott Lab. / Jul 27 Abbott Laboratories (Pakistan) Limited(ABOT)	499.34 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Abson Ind. / Jul 27 Abson Industries Limited(ABSON)	2.50 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)
Alfalah ETF. / Jul 27 Alfalah Consumer Index ETF.(ACIETF)	9.84 ▲ 0.00 (0.00%)

Stock	Volume
P.I.A.C.(A) / Jul 27 Pakistan International Airlines Corp(PIAA)	47,200,500 ▲ 0.00
Cnergyico PK / Jul 27 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	29,719,327 ▲ 0.00
Pak Petroleum / Jul 27 Pakistan Petroleum Limited(PPL)	21,170,581 ▲ 0.00
Pak Refinery / Jul 27 Pakistan Refinery Limited(PRL)	16,965,134 ▲ 0.00
The Searle Co. / Jul 27 The Searle Company Limited(SEARL)	15,793,227 ▲ 0.00
P.T.C.L. / Jul 27 Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTC)	15,054,641 ▲ 0.00
K-Electric Ltd. / Jul 27 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	14,145,556 ▲ 0.00
WorldCall Telecom / Jul 27 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	13,158,668 ▲ 0.00
Telecard Limited / Jul 27 Telecard Limited(TELE)	12,358,668 ▲ 0.00

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