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Pakistan foreign investment slip 33 pc in February
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 18 (ANI): Pakistan's Foreign direct investment (FDI) fell year-on-year (YoY) by 33 per cent and decreased by 17.3 per cent compared to the month of January, media reports said on Friday.
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Pakistan's economy plunges; Imran Khan busy offering goodies for popularit
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 10 (ANI): Pakistan's financial condition is in a precarious situation under the inefficient leadership of its Prime Minister Imran Khan.
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Pakistan's trade deficit widens to USD 32 billion
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 4 (ANI): Pakistan's trade deficit widened by a staggering 82 per cent year on year to reach USD 31.96 billion as per the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday.
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Imran Khan's housing scheme in Pak stalled due to hike in prices of cement
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 4 (ANI): A major setback to Imran Khan's much-trumpeted plan to provide homes to the homeless, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Pakistan's parliament informed on Thursday that contractors stopped working on all government-funded housing projects months ago d
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Imran Khan's relief measures result of public anger: Report
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 2 (ANI): Imran Khan government's recent relief measures to reduce prices of petrol and electricity are on account of Opposition pressure and public anger, local media said on Wednesday.
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Imran Khan's relief measures result of long march, no-trust motion: Opposi
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 1 (ANI): Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday said Prime Minister Imran Khan's decision to reduce petroleum and electricity prices was a result of PPP's 'long march' and no-trust motion to oust the government.
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Pakistan headed to record deficit in excess of $20 billion in current fisc
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 28 (ANI): With the current account deficit (CAD) touching an all-time high of $2.56 billion in the month of January 2022, Pakistan's overall CAD is expected to cross $20 billion by the end of this fiscal (2021-22), according to experts.
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Imran Khan to address Pakistan on the country's economic crisis
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 27 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan will address his nation on Monday over the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the ongoing economic crisis of Pakistan.
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Pakistan's Current Account Deficit at an all-time high
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Islamabad [Pakistan], February 26 (ANI): Amid the continuing economic woes, Pakistan's Current Account Deficit (CAD) rose to an all-time high of USD 2.56 billion in the month of January 2022.
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Asian Development Bank report reveals Pak has one of lowest global trade-t
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 13 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank in a report has said that Pakistan does not have a significant trading relationship with its proximate neighbours in South Asia and the country exhibits one of the lowest trade-to-GDP ratios in the world showing at just 30 p
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Pakistan's economy bears additional burden from circular debt of power sec
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 12 (ANI): The Imran Khan government like its predecessors has not been able to stop Pakistan's power sector from continuously bleeding cash as the country's circular debt of the power sector has been gathering girth since 2007, and to date, all the regimes t
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IMF wants Pakistan to 'do more' than just levying taxes, says it should fi
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], February 9 (ANI): The International Monetary Fund does not seem to be satisfied with the Imran Khan government despite the latter increased taxes on a number of products and services in Pakistan as IMF's Resident Representative Esther Perez Ruiz conveyed that Islamabad sho
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