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Pakistan

Core inflation eases to 3% in August 2025 in August 2025

PBS data shows sharp slowdown in consumer prices, with both urban and rural inflation cooling

Published 01 Sep, 2025 05:04pm

Business & Economy

Sugar prices soar to record Rs180/kg in Pakistan during Ramazan

Govt exports 741,000 metric tons of sugar

Published 15 Mar, 2025 02:29pm

Pakistan

Inflation rate drops below government estimates in February

Monthly inflation drops by 0.83%

Published 03 Mar, 2025 07:31pm

Pakistan

Pakistan’s trade deficit widens, statistics bureau releases report

Trade gap reaches $15.78 billion in first eight months of the fiscal year

Published 03 Mar, 2025 06:24pm

Pakistan

Slight rise in weekly inflation ahead of Ramazan

Prices of 16 items dropped, 11 became more expensive, while 24 remained stable

Published 21 Feb, 2025 05:12pm

Pakistan

Weekly inflation sees slight decline

Prices of 13 items increased, 15 decreased, 23 remained stable

Published 14 Feb, 2025 05:49pm

Business & Economy

Pakistan mobile phone imports declines in first half of FY2024-25

Mobile phone imports in Pakistan fell by 7.27% in December 2024

Published 03 Feb, 2025 03:51pm

Business & Economy

Pakistan’s exports jump 14.11% to $7.875b in Q1 of FY2024-25

Exports in September saw a slight rise of 1.56%

Published 03 Oct, 2024 08:52am

Business & Economy

Pakistan faces $162m current account deficit in July

July’s current account deficit was 48% higher than previous month

Published 19 Aug, 2024 03:23pm

Business & Economy

Pharmaceutical goods’ export increases by 3.90% to US$341.023 mln in FY 2023-24

Pakistan exported pharmaceutical products worth US$ 341.023 million during 2023-24

Published 30 Jul, 2024 01:35pm

Business & Economy

Check out rates of basic items as weekly inflation ticks up

Out of 51 items, prices of 16 items increased

Published 05 Apr, 2024 11:01pm

Business & Economy

Highest ever inflation: How much basic necessities became expensive in 2023

While prices of several food items increase over 50%, gas rose a whopping 1100%

Updated 02 Jan, 2024 01:28am

Business & Economy

Pakistan headline inflation up 29.7% y/y: PBS

Monthly inflation for December registered a 0.8% rise from previous month

Published 01 Jan, 2024 06:47pm

Pakistan

Large-scale manufacturing output drops by 1.09% in July

Production in major sectors showed negative growth

Published 19 Sep, 2023 01:00pm

Business & Economy

Pakistan’s headline inflation slows marginally in August

It was marginally lower than the reading in July

Updated 01 Sep, 2023 06:57pm

Business & Economy

Mobile import declined 67.46pc in July 2022

Pakistan imported mobile phones worth $38.8m

Published 03 Sep, 2022 04:54pm

Business & Economy

Pakistani rupee crosses 200 against dollar in intra-day trade

Last week, the rupee registered a 0.5% gain as govt’s ended energy subsidies

Updated 06 Jun, 2022 02:26pm

Pakistan

49% increase witnessed in July-March imports

PBS says $58.877 billion worth of items were imported

Published 17 Apr, 2022 11:46am

Business & Economy

Pakistan exports witness 25% growth in first nine months of FY 2021-22

Commerce ministry says exports are in line with targets, hoping to achieve yearly target

Published 02 Apr, 2022 11:28am

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Textile exports witnessed 26% growth from July-Feb

PBS data shows exports remained at $12b as compared to $9.99b in same period of the last fiscal year

Published 16 Mar, 2022 11:39am

Business

PBS approves re-basing of national accounts, trade indices

Council decided work on next rebasing may be initiated after population census

Published 16 Mar, 2022 11:18am

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Published 26 Dec, 2021 10:50am

Pakistan

18.32% growth YoY: Cell phones worth $856.73m imported in 5 months: PBS

On a month-on-month basis, imports of mobile phones into Pakistan increased by 41.64 percent during November 2021 and remained $212.055 million

Published 19 Dec, 2021 11:32am