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Mohiuddin AazimDawn Business |
Good things have started happening in Pakistan’s economy, but challenges remain and may even compound in the near future. The Pakistani economy...
Freedom of expression is under threat. Defence Minister Khawaja Asif warns media persons and social media users that they could go to jail if they...
Financial analysts of different brokerage houses begin speculating about monetary policy changes two or three weeks before their announcement....
The situation of street crimes in Karachi is better than Washington and Paris, Sindh Senior Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon boasted last week. Quoting...
Do you know that Singapore earned $291 billion through services exports in 2022? The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Turkiye followed with their...
Some 40 per cent of Pakistanis continue to live below the poverty line with little in sight to hope for better days. The country’s economic growth...
Out of every 100 employed people in Pakistan, 72 work for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB),...
In eight months and one week of this fiscal year — between July 1, 2023, and March 8, 2024 — the federal government’s budgetary borrowings from...
Thanks to the latest rollover of a $2 billion Chinese loan, there is apparently little to worry about the rupee’s health till the end of March 2024....
The federal government borrowed more than Rs4 trillion from commercial banks in seven months and nine days of this fiscal year (between July 1, 2023,...
BUSINESSMEN and investors want to know how long the rupee may remain stable. Many fear that the local currency might lose its worth against the mighty...
The general elections are over. The process of forming an elected government is ongoing. Two important things to watch are how well the new government...
The situation in the Middle East is grim. Threats of a wider military conflict now seem an imminent reality. After the February 8 elections, the...
Banks in Pakistan make most of their interest earnings through investments in treasury bills and bonds. What keeps this trend stretched year after...
During the first half of this fiscal year (July-Dec 2023), the current account deficit fell to just $831 million from a whopping $3.63 billion in the...
Pakistan’s yearly consumer inflation rate stood at 29.7 per cent in December 2023, which means that those who earned Rs100,000 per month needed Rs...
Despite higher energy and interest rate costs and even amidst stagnant industrial output, Pakistan’s merchandise exports are growing — thanks to...
THE two historical events of 2023 — the breakout of the Israel-Palestian war and the spread of artificial intelligence — will continue to impact...
In November, annual national consumer inflation in Pakistan rose to 29.2 per cent from 26.8pc in October, mainly due to increased gas and electricity...
Within three months and ten days of this fiscal year (between July 1 and November 10), the federal government borrowed more than Rs3.244 trillion from...
Fourteen years ago, in FY10, Pakistan’s top 10 destinations for goods exports included the USA, UAE, Afghanistan, China and the UK, respectively. A...
The deportation drive is in full swing. Thousands of Afghan nationals staying “illegally” in Pakistan are being deported on a daily basis. More...
Pakistan and Pakistanis have always suffered and continue to suffer on many counts and in many ways just for one reason: the absence of a level...
In just over three months of this fiscal year (between July 1 and October 6), the federal government’s borrowings from banks almost tripled to...
In a recent Dawn article, the authors — a former governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), chairman of Habib Bank Limited and president of Bank...
As the ongoing crackdown on currency and commodity hoarding and smuggling remains in the news, rising fuel and energy prices, with their fallout...