Pakistan’s current account surplus came in at $459 million in May 2026, the State Bank of Pakistan reported this week, reversing April’s $276 million deficit and...
The dollar is staging a comeback nobody priced in back in January. After its worst start to a calendar year in roughly two decades, the greenback...
Pakistan’s finance minister Mohammad Aurangzeb presented a budget of Rs 18.77 trillion to the National Assembly on June 12, 2026 with claims that it was a...
On June 12, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb stood before the National Assembly and did something Pakistan’s textile exporters had wanted for two years: he cut the...
For years, registering a commercial vessel under the national flag was an act of financial self-sabotage. Shipowners faced an immediate, punishing math problem: the moment a...
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...