Search For "miftah ismail"
Fuel prices would have been higher under PTI's deal with IMF: Pak finance
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 5 (ANI): Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Wednesday said that the prices of diesel and petrol would have been significantly higher under the agreement former prime minister Imran Khan made with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), local media reported.
Read More
Sharif government refuses extension for Governor of State Bank of Pakistan
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): The three-year tenure of Reza Baqir as the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is set to expire on Thursday as the government decided not to extend his term.
Read More
No chance of an immediate hike in petrol prices, says Pak Finance Minister
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 26 (ANI): Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Monday said that there was "no chance" of an immediate hike in the price of petrol in the next few days but did not rule out the possibility of revising the prices on or after May 1, adding that even if the pric
Read More
IMF team to visit Pakistan in May to discuss subsidies
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 25 (ANI): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that it will be sending a mission to Pakistan next month after a team of the international lender held discussions with Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail in Washington.
Read More
Pakistan FM claims ex-PM Imran Khan pushed economy into 'subsidy' trap
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 24 (ANI): Accusing former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan of setting a trap for his successors by announcing heavy subsidies on fuel weeks before his ouster, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail has said that the government will have to withdraw the subsidies to revi
Read More
Amid demand to reverse Imran Khan's relief package, Pak FM reaches US to h
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 22 (ANI): With Pakistan's economy in the doldrums and amid demands from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reverse Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's relief package, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Friday reached Washington for talks with the financial ins
Read More
IMF wants Pakistan to reverse Imran Khan's relief package
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 21 (ANI): Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Wednesday said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) wants the country to revoke the subsidies extended by the Imran Khan government by increasing fuel prices and power tariffs, to revive its Extended Fund
Read More
Imran Khan's helicopter commute costs Pakistan PKR 550 mln
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 20 (ANI): Pakistan Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Wednesday revealed that the former premier Imran Khan's helicopter commute from his Bani Gala home to the PM secretariat cost the national exchequer 550 million Pakistani rupees in three years and eight months,
Read More
Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif orders immediate steps to control inflation in
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 14 (ANI): Amid a declining economy in Pakistan, the newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered immediate steps to control inflation in the country.
Read More
Pak's ex-finance minister Miftah Ismail to be named finance chief ahead of
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 14 (ANI): Miftah Ismail, former Pakistan finance minister is likely to be named as the new finance chief of the country ahead of crucial talks with the International Monetary Fund as the country's economy is in dire straits.
Read More
Imran govt is turning Pakistan's State Bank into bank of IMF, says PML-N l
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], January 1(ANI): Lambasting the new bill in Pakistan's National Assembly, the country's former Finance Minister Miftah Ismail said that with the government's unveiling of a new amendment bill the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has "now become the State Bank of IMF."
Read More
Pakistan: PML-N lashes out at Imran Khan govt over looming energy crisis
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former finance minister Miftah Ismail on Sunday lashed out at Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government for a looming energy crisis in the country and delays in the dry docking of liquified natural gas (LNG)
Read More