ISLAMABAD: Foreign investors sent home sharply higher dividends and profits in the first four months of FY26, led by a jump in transfers to China, even as fresh direct investment in the country continued to shrink.
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LSM rebounds with 2.69 percent growth in September
ISLAMABAD: The large-scale manufacturing sector expanded 2.69 percent year-on-year in September, accelerating from August’s near-stagnant 0.54 percent pace and pointing to a tentative stabilisation in industrial activity after flood disruptions eased, official data showed on Wednesday.
Foreign inflows jump 33% to $2.293 billion in July-October on IMF backstop
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan received $2.293 billion in total foreign economic assistance, loans plus grants, in the first four months of fiscal 2026, up 33.2% from $1.723 billion a year earlier, as International Monetary Fund disbursements provided crucial early-year support and spared the country a repeat of last year’s anaemic start.
Security forces kill at least 27 militants in northwest clashes
ISLAMABAD: Security forces killed at least 27 militants and wounded several others in a series of intense encounters across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province this week, according to security sources and official statements, in what appeared to be one of the deadliest stretches of counterterrorism operations in the restive region in recent months.
Federal Constitutional Court adopts Supreme Court rules to launch operations
ISLAMABAD: The newly established Federal Constitutional Court took a decisive step toward full operation on Wednesday by unanimously adopting, with necessary adaptations, the Supreme Court Rules 2025 to govern its proceedings until it drafts its own.
Legal limbo over Ayub blocks bid to name new opposition leader, National Assembly tells PTI
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Secretariat said on Wednesday the status of Omar Ayub Khan, the disqualified leader of the opposition, remains sub judice before the Peshawar High Court, effectively blocking any immediate move to name his successor even as the Election Commission of Pakistan presses ahead with by-elections next week in the constituency Ayub once represented.
Top court split as judges reject mass-resignation proposal over 27th amendment
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court judges gathered in emergency session last week, confronting the stark new reality created by the 27th Constitutional Amendment, but a dramatic proposal that all of them resign en masse to protest the changes met with only silence and the meeting ended without agreement on any collective action, Dawn newspaper reported on Thursday.
IMF report exposes deep-rooted corruption risks in Pakistan ahead of board’s sign-off on $1.2 billion tranche
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan faces entrenched corruption vulnerabilities stemming from systemic institutional weaknesses, the International Monetary Fund said in a long-delayed diagnostic assessment that makes publication a prerequisite for the fund’s board to approve a $1.2 billion loan disbursement next month.
US congressional commission says Pakistan achieved ‘military success’ over India in May clashes
ISLAMABAD: A bipartisan congressional commission has concluded that Pakistan scored a clear “military success” over India in the four-day, brief but intense, air and missile war last May, a rare official American acceptance that credits Chinese-supplied weapons and Chinese intelligence with giving Islamabad a decisive battlefield edge.
Karachi port begins standardised bunkering in bid to attract global shipping lines
KARACHI: Pakistan has launched its first standardised bunkering operations at Karachi Port, introducing regulated ship refuelling services that align the country’s main gateway with international maritime safety and environmental standards, Maritime Affairs Minister Junaid Anwar Chaudhry said on Tuesday.