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Islamabad’s macro dashboard is, on paper, the healthiest it has been in years. Real GDP expanded 3.7% in FY2025–26, foreign exchange reserves have strengthened, the current...
The Pakistan Stock Exchange delivered a historic comeback in 2025. The KSE-100 index delivered a total return of 51.2 percent in 2025, with banking and cement...
Pakistan opened its new fiscal year with its strongest July export performance on record, and the IMF is projecting the country’s best-ever full-year export total for...
Pakistan’s cotton sector delivered a headline-grabbing statistic this month: Sindh recorded a 67% surge in cotton output by July 31, offsetting a decline in Punjab tied...
Pakistan is running two demanding reform programs at once, and they don’t obviously fit together. On one track, the IMF is pressing for stricter fiscal controls,...
The IMF’s Executive Board completed Pakistan’s third review of its 37-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and second review of its Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) on...
Gulf sovereign wealth funds are having their busiest year on record. In the first half of 2026 alone, funds from Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Doha and beyond...
Pakistan’s finance minister spent the week of July 20 in Washington doing something Islamabad has rarely been able to do from a position of relative strength:...
What happened: In early 2026, the United Arab Emirates declined to roll over a $3 billion loan to Pakistan — the first such refusal in seven...
Introduction For the first time in the country’s history, money sent home by Pakistan’s overseas workers has exceeded the value of everything Pakistan actually sells abroad....
