ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s large-scale manufacturing sector expanded 5.89% year-on-year in the first eight months of fiscal 2026, as a sustained rebound in industrial production offset weakness in textiles and steel, data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed.
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Pakistan signs agreement with Saudi Arabia to extend $3 billion deposit
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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday stressed the need to “effectively utilise the current window of opportunity” to forge a durable peace in the Middle East, capping a day of high-level diplomacy here as Pakistan presses to convert a two-week-old ceasefire between the United States, Israel and Iran into a lasting agreement.
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Pakistan deploys two dozen fighter jets to escort Iranian negotiators home after inconclusive US talks, citing fears of Israeli attack
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Pakistan Navy test-fires indigenous anti-ship ballistic missile
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IMF’s Georgieva backs Pakistan’s program as finance chief lines up panda bond, privatisations
ISLAMAVAD: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva praised Pakistan’s “continued progress on economic reforms” and the macroeconomic stability achieved under the Fund’s program, capping a week of high-stakes diplomacy by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb at the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings.
Pakistan posts $1.07 billion current account surplus in March as remittances climb and imports fall
KARACHI: Pakistan recorded a current-account surplus of $1.07 billion in March, the State Bank of Pakistan said Thursday, the third consecutive monthly surplus and one of the strongest monthly readings on record.