Pakistan and China are planning to arrange bidding for $10 billion Mainline-1 — the 1,872km Railway Track along with associated facilities from Karachi to Peshawar — next month (December) and have agreed to have its foreign exchange component of $8.4bn fully financed through Renminbi (RMB) based Chinese loan. The bidding would be among the leading Chinese companies to be identified and recommen
Would you believe that out of every 100 rupees the federal government spends each year, Rs52 goes on debt servicing? Sadly, this is true. During July-September 2022, the current expenses of the federal government totalled Rs1.832 trillion. Of this, Rs954 billion was used for domestic and foreign debt servicing, according to the quarterly fiscal review. Domestic debt servicing alone consumed Rs8
Bulls reigned supreme on the Pakistan Stock Exchange on Thursday following the announcement by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar about $500 million financing by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. According to Arif Habib Ltd, investors gained considerable confidence because of the promised fund under the Building Resilience with Active Countercyclical Expenditure initiative supported by Asian Dev
FINANCE MINISTER Ishaq Dar’s announcement that the ruling coalition would withdraw the legal challenge to the April judgement of the Federal Shariat Court that gave the government until the end of 2027 to eliminate interest-based banking must have come as a surprise. Mr Dar said the government wants to eliminate riba as soon as possible. He also said that both the State Bank and the state-contr
Pakistan will implement the decision of the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) to rid the country of an interest-based banking system, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Wednesday, but many are questioning whether it will be possible to do it at all. The FSC was established in Pakistan in 1980 under the reign of military dictator Ziaul Haq and is responsible “to examine and decide the question whether