The Pakistan Stock Exchange’s (PSX) benchmark KSE-100 index shed more than 400 points on Tuesday, with analysts attributing the fall to the central bank’s hike in the interest rate coupled with the current political situation.According to the PSX website, the KSE-100 index had gone down by 434.15 points, or 1.02 per cent, around 2:15pm. By …
Topics Pakistan | Economic Crisis IANS | Islamabad Last Updated at March 29, 2022 11:37 IST https://mybs.in/2au77pO The political situation in Pakistan is one of the main domestic risks to the economy due to uncertainty over the growing tensions between the government and opposition alliance, endangering a fragile economic recovery, the Ministry of Finance warned. "The …
Daily Times Your right to know Monday, June 13, 2022 Op-Ed Qamar RafiqApril 26, 2022 How should we regard the twin-face of party politics in Pakistan, one before an election and the second after coming into power? We are living in two realities. In a country with such divided and dodgy centres of power, it …
With my absence from this space last week, I feel that I have a larger vista of Pakistan’s politics to cover. And the past two weeks do contain multitudes, in terms of the traumatic transformations that have been set into motion. We have to contend with some new realities – and new illusions. Meanwhile, the …
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ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Federal Minister for Planning Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday while assuring that the country will be taken out of the difficult situation under the leadership of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that the elections will be held on time, Imran Niazi should leave negative politics and talk about Charter of Economy. Talking to …
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Oil jumps to 13-week high on US demandKIBOR reaches close to 13-1/2-year high Home Latest Pakistan Business Sci-Tech Phones World Opinion Life & Style Sports Blogs Archive Other Demand comes before payment of around Rs300b to Chinese power plantsThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked Pakistan’s government to renegotiate the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) energy …
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Despite new cast assuming reins, the reluctance to take difficult decisions to stabilise the country remainsWhen Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf came to power in 2018, many in the country felt nothing but happiness. The World Cup winner’s support base expected he would revamp the entire governance system and stamp out corruption for good in just …
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Do you have feedback on the Brookings Institution’s website? Take our brief survey.Even by the standards of Pakistan’s perpetually unstable politics, the last ten weeks in the country have been exceptionally turbulent. Pakistan has a new government as of April 11 after Imran Khan was forced out via a vote of no confidence. The weeks …
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