Pakistan recorded its highest-ever monthly current account surplus in March, with a surplus of $1.195 billion compared to $363 million in the same month last year, the State Bank data showed on Thursday. The March surplus accounted for the largest share of the $1.859bn total surplus posted during the July-March period of the ongoing fiscal year. The previous month also witnessed a historic i
Rising trade tensions and sweeping shifts in the global trading system will trigger downward revisions of the International Monetary Fund’s economic forecasts but no global recession is expected, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday. Georgieva said countries’ economies were being tested by a reboot of the global trading system — sparked in recent months by US tariffs and
Industrial and political representatives from Karachi have called for forensic audit of almost Rs76 billion write-off claims made by K-Electric unrecoverable from consumers since 2017 and announced that its recovery through tariff from consumers would be resisted through all constitutional means. At a public hearing organised by the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) on Thursd
The Pakistani government will seek expressions of interest (EoIs) next week for the sale of Pakistan International Airlines, the privatisation ministry said on Thursday, days after it reported its first annual profit in over two decades. Pakistan has been seeking to sell a 51-100 per cent stake in the debt-ridden carrier, to raise funds and reform cash-draining, state-owned enterprises as envis
Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday resumed high-level trade and investment talks after a year-long gap to facilitate cargo movement at border stations to maintain unfettered bilateral and transit trade. The last high-level meeting took place between both countries in March 2024, when Commerce Secretary Mohammad Khurrum Agha visited Kabul and met Afghan Acting Minister for Industry and Commerc