6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (377+ words) ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), surged by 13.08 per cent year-on-year for the week ending July 16 due to rising petroleum product prices, according to official data released on Friday. Weekly inflation has resumed its upward trend…...

6+ hour, 41+ min ago  (615+ words) • CAD gap hits $649m in June • Foreign direct investment declines 34pc to $1.64bn KARACHI: Pakistan ended the outgoing fiscal year with a current account deficit (CAD) of $139 million, reversing a surplus of $1.838 billion recorded in 2024-25, the State Bank of Pakistan reported on Friday....

17+ hour, 36+ min ago  (1470+ words) Petroleum Minister Ali Pervaiz Malik on Friday said that fuel prices would now be fixed on a daily basis due to fluctuations in international market prices following renewed hostilities between Iran and the US. The government had been announcing weekly…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (189+ words) This 2024 census is the first to combine agriculture, livestock and farm machinery in one digital exercise This is not a story of canals disappearing. It is a shift in the centre of gravity from publicly coordinated surface water to privately…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (710+ words) ENERGY security is now national security for Pakistan. The war in the Middle East has made that clear. A conflict beyond our borders now threatens the shipments, foreign exchange stability and remittance flows that underpin Pakistan’s economy. For a country…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (266+ words) ISLAMABAD: Short-term inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), increased by 11.94 per cent year-on-year for the week ending July 9, mainly due to higher retail prices of perishable food items and wheat flour, according to official data released on Friday....

1+ week, 6+ hour ago  (120+ words) Pakistan needs a new growth paradigm. Ironically, Pakistan still has no official estimates of provincial GDP. While we expect the federal government to explain every decimal point of national GDP growth, provincial governments are rarely held accountable for growth due…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (474+ words) ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s tariff rationalisation drive has reshaped the country’s import composition with nearly two-fifths of the total import bill entering duty-free during the outgoing fiscal year (FY26), official data showed on Thursday. The figures suggest a marked shift in the composition…...

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1+ week, 2+ day ago  (469+ words) ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday left its forecast for Pakistan’s economic growth unchanged at 3.7 per cent and projected inflation at 8.3pc for the current fiscal year, slightly higher than the government’s estimate. In its Asian Development Outlook (ADO)…...