akistan paid over $3.8 billion in external debt servicing in the third quarter of the current fiscal year (FY25), including $1.263bn as interest, the State Bank reported on Monday. In 2025, Pakistan’s external debt servicing amounted to $26bn and initially appeared to be a very difficult task; however, the government has come close to achieving the target. The SBP data showed that Pakistan p
Investors head into a busy week for economic data watching if leadership in the US stock market could be moving away from defensive equity areas that indicates greater appetite for risk. While the benchmark S&P 500 index is down 3.7% in 2025, with stocks jolted by concerns about economic damage from President Donald Trump's tariffs, the consumer staples and utilities' sectors, typically seen as
Increasing business and trade relations with the UK can provide Pakistan and its industries an alternative destination to achieve the desired goals of socio-economic prosperity, qualitative industrialisation and exports, in which the Pakistani businessmen and investors settled in the UK can play an important role. Rising cooperation in health, education, hospitality, culture, IT, human resource
In the ongoing escalated environment between India and Pakistan, the talk of free trade across borders can be termed unrealistic, anti-nationalist or even unpatriotic. In this article, I will argue that trade openness, trade connectivity and trade facilitation can serve as a deterrence against war, conflict and violence. Openness comes with no or low tariffs; connectivity requires reliable phys
In the ongoing escalated environment between India and Pakistan, the talk of free trade across borders can be termed unrealistic, anti-nationalist or even unpatriotic. In this article, I will argue that trade openness, trade connectivity and trade facilitation can serve as a deterrence against war, conflict and violence. Openness comes with no or low tariffs; connectivity requires reliable phys