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Pakistan hikes electricity tariff by PKR 7.91 per unit
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 23 (ANI): Amid the rising inflation in the county, the Pakistani government has once again raised the electricity price in the country by PKR 7.91 per unit under "uniform national tariff".
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Pakistan's rising debts, decreasing exchange reserves raise concern
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 14 (ANI): Pakistan is in economic turmoil as its foreign debts are rising while foreign exchange reserves are decreasing.
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Electricity workers protest in Lahore against inflation, petrol price hike
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Electricity workers in Pakistan have protested in Lahore against inflation and rising poverty and unemployment in the county.
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31 pc of Pakistan's youth currently unemployed
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 16 (ANI): Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) reported that over 31 per cent of Pakistan's youth are currently unemployed and of this figure, 51 per cent are females, while 16 per cent are males, with many of them holding professional degrees.
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Pakistan entering New Year with severe issues including unemployment, heal
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 31 (ANI): Pakistan's struggle of maintaining its financials seems to get no relief ahead of New Year -2022 - as Islamabad topped the list of 10 countries with the highest external debt and facing waste of national resources, burgeoning population, rising unempl
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Pakistan's unemployment rate jumps to 6.9 per cent in 2018-19
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], September 18 (ANI): Pakistan's joblessness has jumped from 5.8 per cent in 2017-18 to 6.9 per cent in 2018-19, according to the Labour Force Survey (LFS) published by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday.
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Pakistan: Unemployment rate surged from 5.8 pc to 6.9 pc under PM Imran Kh
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] September 17 (ANI): Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Thursday informed that the unemployment rate in the country had jumped from 5.8 per cent to 6.9 per cent in the first year of Imran Khan's tenure.
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Opposition slams Pak PM over rising unemployment, ill-planned policies
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan] August 28 (ANI): Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday slammed the Imran Khan government for rising unemployment and making hundreds of families homeless by demolishing their houses in the name of anti-encroachment operations.
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Unemployment in Pakistan rising amid COVID-19 despite projected economic g
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 7 (ANI): The number of unemployed people in Pakistan has increased during the COVID-induced lockdowns, indicating that millions are still out of work despite a projected 3.9 per cent GDP growth.
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