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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...
Inside the high-ceilinged committee rooms of Islamabad’s federal secretariat, the air conditioning hums against the mid-summer heat, masking a more volatile mathematical reality outside. The federal...
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 fluorescent-lit corridors of the Ministry of Finance in Islamabad, the arithmetic has long stopped making sense. Pakistan spends more than half its federal revenue...
On a sweltering Tuesday afternoon inside the Pakistan Stock Exchange building on I.I. Chundrigar Road, the mood was uncharacteristically euphoric. For the better part of two...
The scaffolding across the capital’s commercial zones has sat idle for months. On a sweltering Tuesday in early June 2026, property developer Tariq Mansoor stares at...
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...
The bond market vigilantes have awoken from a decade-long slumber. In London, Washington, and Tokyo, the cost of borrowing is no longer an abstract line item—it...
Pakistan’s benchmark index closes past 173,000 for the first time since January, as fertiliser giants, banks, and cement stocks ride a wave of US-Iran peace hopes...
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...
