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Pakistan's economy

  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
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    Why Islamic banking is taking off

    Pakistan’s Meezan Bank is the country’s most profitable bank. How?

  • Saturday, 1 March, 2025
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    New York migrant shelter targeted by Trump officials to shut in blow to Pakistan

    Scrapping of $220mn Roosevelt Hotel contract leaves storied venue’s future in doubt and adds to Islamabad’s fiscal woes

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  • Tuesday, 25 February, 2025
    World Bank unit lambasts Pakistan over army-backed energy talks

    IFC and development lenders urge authorities to rethink move to reopen negotiations to slash power costs

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  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
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    How Pakistan’s military is taking over its economy

    The country’s armed forces have become intimately involved in everything from canal projects to energy contracts. Investors are increasingly nervous

  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
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    Saudi Arabia set to buy stake in Pakistan copper and gold mining project

    Kingdom plans to purchase up to 20% share in $9bn complex as it looks to accelerate its diversification away from oil

    Rods of compressed earth core samples are seen in a warehouse at the Reko Diq mine in Pakistan’s province of Balochistan
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    World Bank approves 10-year $20bn Pakistan lending package

    Move aims to support cash-strapped government while protecting against political instability

    Labourers carry baskets of oranges at a wholesale fruit market in Lahore
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    Pakistan scraps plan for tax on banks’ bumper profits

    Measure abandoned days before deadline after lenders launched legal challenges and imposed fees

    A man walks past a colourful, decorated bus and motorcycles in front of the State Bank of Pakistan building in Karachi.
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
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    Pakistan loses its edge in supplying China with sesame seeds

    Companies squeezed by falling prices as other countries compete to cultivate crop prized in Chinese kitchens

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  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Pakistan security services pressured utilities over government power deal

    Talks that led to expected state savings of nearly $1.5bn described as ‘more an execution than a negotiation’

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  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
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    Pakistani businesses warn of internet disruptions amid fears of ‘firewall’ censorship

    Slow speeds and service disruptions hurt IT companies and rattle investors in one of country’s few standout sectors

    An IT technician works at a data centre in Karachi
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
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    Pakistan’s military backs Sharif in push for IMF reforms

    Country’s powerful armed forces support Islamabad’s painful restructuring under $7bn bailout

    Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along a road, ahead of the general elections in Karachi, Pakistan
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Pakistan reaches $7bn loan deal with IMF

    PM Shehbaz Sharif has pushed tax reforms to secure debt-stricken country’s 24th funding programme

    A shopkeeper adjusts fabric at a shop in Lahore last week
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Interview
    Pakistan finance minister warns taxes must rise to break bailout cycle

    Former JPMorgan banker says Islamabad must ‘get real’ as it seeks 24th IMF package

    Muhammad Aurangzeb, Pakistan’s finance minister
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Pakistan rice exports hit record following Indian sales ban

    Windfall is a boon to country hit by double-digit inflation and anaemic economic growth

    Farmers clean rice crops in a paddy field in Lahore
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    How Pakistan’s economy fell into crisis — in charts

    High debt, low growth and raging inflation will challenge a new government lacking a public mandate

    A montage of a stack of Pakistanti rupee notes and charts
  • Sunday, 21 January, 2024
    Pakistan's politics
    Pakistan’s economy cannot afford another election delay, warns Zardari

    Leading political figure says a new government is needed to instil confidence among foreign creditors

    Bilawal Bhutto Zardari  speaks to journalists in Islamabad last week
  • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
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    Pakistan steps up tax evasion crackdown: pay up or lose your phone

    Critics warn IMF rescue deal at risk from poor tax collection

    A farmer checks harvested wheat grain on a farm in Chiniot, Punjab, Pakistan
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Pakistan’s expulsion order deepens the Afghan crisis

    Islamabad needs to reverse course, but the west has responsibility too

  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
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    Miners’ hunt for copper takes Barrick to Pakistan’s western frontier

    Reko Diq has potential to be one of world’s biggest suppliers of metal needed for energy transition

    Local government officials visit the gold and copper mine site in the town of Reko Diq in Pakistan
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Pakistan
    Pakistan roiled by protests over surging electricity costs

    Popular anger threatens to derail crisis-hit country’s $3bn IMF programme

    People gather during a protest against the surge in electricity prices along a street in Muzaffarabad on Thursday
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    Pakistan’s businesses urge more help for crisis-hit economy after IMF deal

    Short-term $3bn bailout eases default fears but looming election raises prospect reforms could be unwound

    Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and finance minister Ishaq Dar
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Pakistan and IMF reach $3bn rescue funding deal

    Preliminary agreement staves off threat of default but reforms needed to resolve economic crisis, say analysts

    Two men in silhouette greet each other after the Eid al-Adha prayers in Peshawar, Pakistan
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    IMF criticises Pakistan budget as pressure mounts for bailout package

    Islamabad had hoped to end deadlock with multilateral lender over stalled $7bn support programme

    An adult holding a child, seen through the legs of another adult in shallow water in Karachi, Pakistan
  • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
    Pakistan
    Pakistan pins hopes on Chinese help in debt crunch

    Islamabad expects Beijing to roll over debt repayments next month but further deadlines loom

    Protesters in Karachi, Pakistan, look down from a wall at marchers
  • Friday, 12 May, 2023
    Person in the News
    Imran Khan, the Pakistani politician taking on the army

    The cricketing star turned populist firebrand is at the centre of the country’s latest wave of unrest

    Illustration of Person in the News Imran Khan
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