Tag: inflation

Moody's Investors Service (Moody's) on Tuesday downgraded the Government of Pakistan's local and foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured debt ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed concern over the high price of chicken meat in the country and inquired from ...

The political situation in the country cannot be more out of touch with reality or more disconnected with the direction ...

Consumer prices rose significantly in the outgoing week, as prices of staple commodities like onions, chicken, eggs, rice, cigarettes and ...

The Arts Council of Pakistan, Karachi organised a 3 day Pakistan Literature Festival at Alhamra Arts Council, Lahore for the ...

As per news doing the rounds, the IMF has asked Pakistan for an interest rate hike in order to reduce ...

A few months ago, I wrote an article trying to put praise for Miftah Ismail into perspective and context. The ...

On Wednesday, the finance minister proposed to the Parliament a supplementary finance bill, mini-budget, that would raise the sales tax ...

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Wednesday called for setting up a national commission to probe the factors behind the economic ...

On August 12, 2023, the present National Assembly’s tenure will end. Strangely, the government led by the Pakistan Democratic Movement ...

Pakistan's economic situation is currently in a state of flux. Inflation has been on the rise and economic growth has ...

Visiting Pakistan is an experience punctuated by stark contrasts. You see abject poverty on streets, you meet engineers who are ...

In a bid to break the deadlock with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the government on Tuesday will share its ...

The Pakistani rupee plummeted to a new low of 269.63 against the dollar on 30th January. Earlier, the interbank rate ...

Pakistan’s currency dropped 9.6% against the US dollar Thursday to an all-time low in the largest single-day fall in at ...

“Alas! How sad when reasoners reason wrong.” These words by Sophocles beautifully embody the sadness and the tragedy one experiences ...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) General Secretary Asad Umar has said that neutrality is nowhere in the country as PTI lawmakers are ...

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed confidence that a deal with International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be finalized this month, ...

State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) foreign exchange reserves have dropped to a nine-year low of $3.678 billion during the week ...

The rupee plunged to a record low of Rs255.43 against USD in the interbank market, after the removal of the ...

The government, after trying its hand at every other alternative and failing, has finally decided to implement the IMF's conditionalities ...

Pakistani social media users are 'aghast' at a video purporting to show an unidentified female "posing" with a bouquet, wearing ...

Pakistan broke its own standards of political instability in the year 2022 and entered 2023 with heightened polarization, without any ...

In a Twitter thread, Princeton economist Atif Mian argued that it is a “foolish policy” measure to try and fix ...

Pakistan is facing existential multi-dimensional crises of politics and economy with a highly dysfunctional state. It is about much more ...

The State Bank of Pakistan recently announced remittance figures for December 2022 and the results are far from encouraging. The ...