Pakistan is under an obligation to pay $25 billion in debt servicing during the current fiscal year. It was disclosed in a briefing to analysts by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday after unveiling the monetary policy stance for the next two months. The country’s total repayment obligation amounts to slightly below $25bn in FY24, comprising $3.3bn in interest payments and slightly ab
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) missed the collection target for July by almost Rs2 billion amid a decline in imports, showed provisional data released on Monday. The revenue collected in the first month of the current fiscal year amounted to Rs532 billion, falling short of the projected target of Rs534bn. “We will cross eventually the target for the month”, a senior tax official told Dawn.
The government on Monday could not announce the fortnightly adjustment in the prices of petroleum products, with consultations continuing into the early hours of Tuesday. However, a 17.5pc increase was announced in the producer price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), as well as a 13.5pc raise in the LPG consumer sale price for August. According to an Ogra notification, the LPG price was incr
The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 index crossed the 48,000 mark on Monday for the first time in almost two years after gaining more than 1,000 points. According to the PSX website, the market recorded an increase of 1010.93 points at 11:10am, up 2.15 per cent from the previous close of 47,076.99 points. Arif Habib Corporation said the KSE-100 index crossed the 48,000 leve
PAKISTAN’S car industry is in deep trouble. The last fiscal was one of the worst years the industry has ever seen. Its sales decreased in FY23 by almost 56pc to 126,879 units from a year ago. The plunge in car sales is driven mainly by three reasons. First, the demand for auto loans, historically a major driver of car sales in the country, is declining significantly because of the State Bank’s