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Platform set for further growth: Experts weigh in on Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25

The government, on Monday, a day before the federal budget is unveiled, released its much-awaited Pakistan Economic...

Published 09 Jun, 2025 06:58pm

Pakistan

Key highlights of Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb unveiled the Pakistan Economic Survey 2024-25 on Tuesday, recapping the annual...

Published 09 Jun, 2025 04:33pm

Business & Finance

Pakistan targets FY26 GDP growth of 4.2%: Ahsan Iqbal

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is targeting GDP growth of 4.2% for the financial year 2025-26, the country’s Planning Minister...

Published 02 Jun, 2025 05:41pm

BR Research

GDP numbers so good, they must be made up

The Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) appears to be counting on a very generous miracle. How else does one justify...

Updated 22 May, 2025 08:13am

Pakistan

Trump tariffs to ‘weigh on’ Pakistan’s economy, says IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cautioned that the recent reciprocal tariffs imposed by US President...

Updated 19 May, 2025 07:58pm

Opinion

The IMF speaks with a forked tongue

Uploading the first review report on the International Mone-tary Fund (IMF) website on the weekend (Saturday), eight...

Published 19 May, 2025 06:15am

IMF projects Pakistan’s external debt to rise to $126.731bn by FY26

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected increase in Pakistan’s external debt to reach...

Updated 19 May, 2025 09:54am

IMF projects Pakistan’s external financing needs at $19.316bn

ISLAMABAD: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected Pakistan’s gross external financing needs at $19.316...

Updated 19 May, 2025 09:47am

Pakistan’s tax revenue projected at 12.6% of GDP

ISLAMABAD: Total tax revenue is projected at 12.6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for 2024-25 against...

Updated 19 May, 2025 09:44am

Budget 2025-26

IMF lowers GDP growth forecast to 2.6% for Pakistan

Says core inflation elevated at around 9%

Updated 19 May, 2025 03:31pm

Opinion

US tariffs: impact and path forward

US President Trump’s across-the-board tariff hikes up to 46 percent on some partners and a flat 29 percent on...

Updated 04 May, 2025 06:45am

IMF lowers Pakistan’s FY25 GDP growth forecast to 2.6%

Washington-based lender in January 2025 had projected GDP growth rate for Pakistan at 3% for FY2025

Updated 23 Apr, 2025 02:39pm

BR Research

Too many young, too few factories

More than half of Pakistan’s 241 million citizens are under the age of 19. Every year, millions of them join the...

Published 11 Apr, 2025 08:50am

Pakistan

Small emerging market dollar bonds resume selloff, Pakistan drops more than 6 cents

JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: International bonds issued by smaller, riskier, emerging economies suffered another sharp...

Updated 09 Apr, 2025 09:41pm

Pakistan

ADB projects Pakistan’s GDP growth at 2.5%, inflation at 6%

Pakistan’s growth is projected to remain steady at 2.5% in fiscal year 2025 and improve to 3% in fiscal year 2026,...

Updated 09 Apr, 2025 11:54pm

Business & Finance

Q2 GDP grows 1.73pc

ISLAMABAD: The country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) posted a growth of 1.73 percent during the 2nd quarter of...

Published 27 Mar, 2025 05:23am

Pakistan

Pakistan’s GDP grows 1.73% in Oct-Dec

Growth in agriculture, industry and services stand at 1.1%, -0.18% and 2.57% respectively.

Updated 26 Mar, 2025 11:11pm

Opinion

Provincial revenue mobilisation

The previous article had focused on the overall fiscal performance of Provincial governments in the first six months...

Published 18 Mar, 2025 07:03am

Opinion

Divide between nominal vs real GDP

The consolidated federal and provincial fiscal operations data for fiscal year 2024-25 assumes nominal Gross ...

Updated 03 Mar, 2025 06:57am

Pakistan

UN projects Pakistan’s GDP growth at 3.4% in 2025, inflation to be in double digits

UN report says the near-term economic outlook for South Asia is expected to remain robust

Updated 11 Jan, 2025 06:11pm

Pakistan

Pakistan’s GDP grows 0.92% in July-Sept, 2.5% in FY24

Growth in agriculture, industry and services stood at 1.15%, -1.03% and 1.43% respectively, in Q1 FY25

Updated 30 Dec, 2024 11:25pm

Positive GDP growth rate unlikely?

Dr Hafeez Pasha says this is due to negative growth in the large-scale manufacturing industries and a decline in major agriculture crops

Updated 23 Dec, 2024 10:51am

ADB projects GDP growth at 3pc, inflation at 10pc

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s GDP growth in fiscal year 2025 is projected at three percent, revised upwards from 2.8...

Updated 12 Dec, 2024 09:04am

BR Research

The Fund must not behave like an accountant

It takes one to know one. The only IMF structural adjustment program ever successfully implemented by Pakistan was...

Published 15 Nov, 2024 08:32am

Opinion

‘Fiscal outcome in the first quarter’

This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed “Fiscal outcome in the first quarter” carried by the newspaper...

Published 06 Nov, 2024 07:00am

BR Research

Q1 surplus – too good to last?

The fiscal numbers for the first quarter are too good to be true. The consolidated fiscal surplus stood at Rs1.7...

Published 01 Nov, 2024 09:07am

1.4pc of GDP: Q1 ends with Rs1.696trn budget balance

Business & Finance

The Fund projects inflation rate at 9.5 percent for 2025

Updated 23 Oct, 2024 09:28am

Pakistan

SBP predicts 2.5-3.5% growth for FY25, warns of structural challenges

Inefficiencies in energy sector resulted in accumulation of circular debt, says central bank in annual report

Updated 17 Oct, 2024 10:51pm

Forex
World
Commodity

Currency	Rate
USD PKR Interbank Selling / Jun 16	283.37
USD PKR Interbank Buying / Jun 16	283.17
USD to Japanese Yen / Jun 16	144.74
USD to Swiss Franc / Jun 16	0.81
Pound Sterling to USD / Jun 16	1.36
Euro to USD / Jun 16	1.16
UK LIBOR % / Jun 14	4.96

Stock	Volume
S&P 500 / Jun 14	5,976.97
Nasdaq / Jun 14	19,406.83
Dow Jones / Jun 14	42,197.79
India Sensex / Jun 16	81,650.51
Tokyo Nikkei / Jun 16	38,314.09
Hang Seng / Jun 16	23,975.22
FTSE 100 / Jun 16	8,884.17
Germany DAX 30 / Jun 16	23,603.27
France CAC40 / Jun 16	7,748.88

Item	Value
Crude Oil USD/Barrel / Jun 16	71.77
Karachi Cotton PKR/37.32 KG / Jun 16	16,785
Gold 10 Grams PKR / Jun 16	310,613
Gold Spot USD/Ounce / Jun 16	3,417.30
Cotton US¢/pound / Jun 16	68.02
Petrol/Litre / Jun 17	258.43
Diesel/Litre / Jun 17	262.59

Gainers
Losers
Leaders

Stock	Price
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Jun 16 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	3.93 ▲ 1 (34.13%)
First Prudential Mod. / Jun 16 First Prudential Modaraba(PMI)	4.39 ▲ 1 (29.5%)
First Punjab Modaraba / Jun 16 First Punjab Modaraba(FPJM)	4.48 ▲ 1 (28.74%)
Cresent Jute / Jun 16 Crescent Jute Products Limited(CJPL)	4.57 ▲ 1 (28.01%)
Unicap Modaraba / Jun 16 Unicap Modaraba(UCAPM)	4.60 ▲ 0.95 (26.03%)
Ist.Capital Sec / Jun 16 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	3.85 ▲ 0.79 (25.82%)
Shaheen Ins. / Jun 16 Shaheen Insurance Company Limited(SHNI)	5.67 ▲ 0.92 (19.37%)
Media Times Ltd / Jun 16 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	3.21 ▲ 0.5 (18.45%)
Equity Modaraba / Jun 16 First Equity Modaraba(FEM)	3.86 ▲ 0.58 (17.68%)
LSE Capital / Jun 16 LSE Capital Limited(LSECL)	6.37 ▲ 0.9 (16.45%)

Stock	Price
Intermarket Securities / Jun 16 Intermarket Securities Limited(IMS)	5.82 ▼ -51.44 (-89.84%)
PIA Holding Co.B / Jun 16 PIA Holding Company Limited B(PIAHCLB)	17,000.19 ▼ -1888.91 (-10%)
Pakgen Power / Jun 16 Pakgen Power Limited(PKGP)	263.77 ▼ -29.31 (-10%)
Khyber Textile / Jun 16 Khyber Textile Mills Limited(KHYT)	1,615.10 ▼ -179.45 (-10%)
Hala Enterprise / Jun 16 Hala Enterprises Limited(HAEL)	27.62 ▼ -3.07 (-10%)
Faisal Sp. / Jun 16 Faisal Spinning Mills Limited(FASM)	299.22 ▼ -30.74 (-9.32%)
Apna Microfin. / Jun 16 Apna Microfinance Bank Limited(AMBL)	10.70 ▼ -0.96 (-8.23%)
GOC (Pak) / Jun 16 GOC (Pak) Limited.(GOC)	73.72 ▼ -5.38 (-6.8%)
Ashfaq Textile / Jun 16 Ashfaq Textile Mills Limited(ASHT)	24.16 ▼ -1.54 (-5.99%)
LSE Financial Serv. / Jun 16 LSE Financial Services Limited(LSEFSL)	40.60 ▼ -2.37 (-5.52%)

Stock	Volume
WorldCall Telecom / Jun 16 Worldcall Telecom Limited(WTL)	267,081,176 ▲ 0.17
Pervez Ahmed Consultancy / Jun 16 Pervez Ahmed Consultancy Services Ltd.(PASL)	92,031,551 ▲ 1
Ist.Capital Sec / Jun 16 First Capital Securities Corporation(FCSC)	86,020,335 ▲ 0.79
Kohinoor Spining / Jun 16 Kohinoor Spinning Mills Limited(KOSM)	73,827,515 ▲ 0.48
Media Times Ltd / Jun 16 Media Times Limited(MDTL)	56,419,406 ▲ 0.5
PIA Holding Co.Ltd / Jun 16 PIA Holding Company Limited(PIAHCLA)	43,086,504 ▲ 1.78
Sui South Gas / Jun 16 Sui Southern Gas Company Limited(SSGC)	37,905,727 ▲ 1.76
Dewan Cement / Jun 16 Dewan Cement Limited(DCL)	29,277,399 ▲ 1.11
Cnergyico PK / Jun 16 Cnergyico PK Limited(CNERGY)	23,084,256 ▼ -0.06
K-Electric Ltd. / Jun 16 K-Electric Limited(KEL)	22,313,740 ▲ 0.04

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