Headline inflation for June clocked in at 12.6 per cent on the year, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) showed on Monday. The reading is higher than the 11.8pc year-on-year rise in May, but is well below the average reading of 23.4pc for the financial year which ended June 30. Month on month, the headline consumer inflation, measured by a basket of goods and services called th
After a record price cut of Rs1.513 million in the last week of April, Lucky Motor Corporation Ltd (LMCL) jacked up the price of Kia Stonic by Rs733,000 on Monday. The company slashed the Stonic price to Rs4.767m from Rs6.280m, which changed the vehicle’s sales fortune. Due to its high prices and intense market competition, the vehicle had been facing sluggish demand. Currently, the vehicle pri
The government announced on Monday that the annual inflation for 2023-24 exceeded its budgetary target, reaching a staggering 23.41 per cent owing to an increase in electricity, gas, and essential kitchen items. The projected target was 21pc for the outgoing fiscal year. According to data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Monday, the average monthly inflation fluctuated over t
The country saw a record inflow of foreign investment in treasury bills during the last quarter of the financial year FY24, reflecting attractive returns and stability in the exchange rate. Pakistan suffered heavily after the outbreak of Covid in 2020 and almost entire investments in domestic bonds left the country. Since then foreign investors have remained away from t-bills and the long-term
A nationwide nominal Rs1 Point-of-Sale (PoS) service fee on each sale invoice collected by hundreds of thousands of tier-1 retailers translates into tens of billions of rupees annually and is allegedly misappropriated by tax officials. This fee, hardly noticed by customers, was imposed by the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) about four years ago. At the time of its imposition in August 2021, it w