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KARACHI: The government has borrowed more than twice as much from banks in the first half of the current fiscal year as it did in the same period last year, as it struggles to cope with soaring inflation and debt servicing costs, central bank data showed.
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ISLAMABAD: The trade sector posted a significant improvement in the first 20 days of December, with exports rising by 33.1 percent and imports falling by 12.8 percent year-on-year, the Ministry of Commerce said.
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KARACHI: Stocks plunged more than 4 percent on Tuesday, posting their biggest single-day drop in history, as investors dumped shares amid political uncertainty and reports of a possible IMF intervention in the country’s circular debt crisis.
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ISLAMABAD: A high court in Pakistan on Tuesday blocked a decision by the country’s election commission that had declared the internal elections of the party, led by Prime Minister Imran Khan, as unconstitutional and stripped it of its ‘bat’ symbol.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is gearing up for a historic general election on February 8, with a record number of 28,626 candidates vying for 1,085 seats in the national and provincial assemblies.
Pakistan’s abysmal tax compliance rate has been a constant source of worry for the authorities, but the problem has remained too hot to handle for successive governments. That may be about to change under the caretaker government headed by PM Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar. By Muhammad Ali.
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ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi on Monday approved the removal of Ahad Khan Cheema, an adviser to the prime minister on establishment, following an order by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) that said he could influence the upcoming elections.
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by former prime minister Imran Khan, said on Monday that it would challenge the election commission’s decision to annul its internal elections and revoke its ‘bat’ symbol ahead of a general election due in 2024.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party founded by former prime minister Imran Khan, has been stripped of its leader, a day after the country’s election commission removed the party’s symbol ahead of the national elections scheduled for February 8, 2024.
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ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police said on Sunday that they had released all the Baloch protesters who were detained during a demonstration earlier this week that demanded an end to enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of ethnic Baloch people.
