The government on Friday increased profit margins of petrol pump owners by 15.5% in a hurriedly called virtual meeting to ...

Pakistan collected a record Rs1.567 trillion in petroleum levy during fiscal year 2025-26, exceeding the government target by ...

The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, as the new pact is known, is the latest in a diplomatic pas de deux by Pakistan’s de facto ...

S&P Global Ratings raised Pakistan’s long-term sovereign credit rating to ‘B’ from ‘B-’ on July 22, with a stable outlook, ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan could secure further sovereign credit rating upgrades if it sustains fiscal consolidation and strengthens its external position, with a fiscal deficit below 3 percent of GDP and ...

Pakistan's fiscal situation improved markedly in the last financial year, recording a third consecutive primary budget surplus of Rs3.6 trillion on the back of higher petroleum levy collection and ...

Pakistan is not short of economic plans. We have had five-year plans, annual plans, vision documents, export strategies, industrial policies, energy policies, investment policies, privatisation ...

Renowned political economist S. Akbar Zaidi has warned that getting rid of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is impossible unless Pakistan stands on its own feet and implements deep, structural ...

The central bank report showed that the government’s domestic debt jumped from Rs54.5 trillion in June 2025 to Rs59.5 trillion in one fiscal year, an increase of Rs5 trillion or 9.1%.

Shafi Burfat, Chairman of Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM), along with representatives of the Sindhudesh National Movement ...

Pakistan's Privatisation Commission receives 12 expressions of interest from Turkish, Chinese, and Pakistani investors for ...

Former Pakistan FBR Chairman Syed Mohammad Shabbar Zaidi has blamed China and the CPEC project for Pakistan's economic ...