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Islamabad’s fiscal arithmetic for 2026-27 tells two stories at once. One is a government insisting the worst of the inflation crisis has passed, with growth ticking...
ISLAMABAD — Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is set to present Pakistan’s federal budget for the fiscal year 2026-27 in the National Assembly today (Friday), facing a...
In the corridors of Islamabad’s Q Block, the mood is less about statecraft and more about pure financial survival. As the government finalises the federal budget...
Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb heads to the National Assembly podium in early June carrying a budget that must simultaneously satisfy the IMF, comfort a salaried class...
Traders in Islamabad did something rare on Friday. They said yes. On May 23, Kashif Chaudhry and a dozen bazaar leaders stood at the National Press...
The Ground Beneath the Diplomacy Pakistan’s economic story over the past two years has been one of stabilisation against the odds. A country that entered 2024...
Pakistan’s salaried public servant is doing the same arithmetic every June. How much will the number on the payslip change — and will it actually matter?...
Pakistan is preparing its most consequential federal budget in years — one that must simultaneously satisfy the International Monetary Fund, relieve a battered middle class, and...
On a Saturday morning at the edge of Ipoh’s old racecourse, the air smells of Ipoh white coffee, damp timber, and something else — something harder...
Karachi, March 2026 — In a modest apartment in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal neighbourhood, Rukhsana Bibi receives a WhatsApp ping every month that she calls “the good news.”...