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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicPakistan economy

Topic: Pakistan economy

Cash-strapped Pakistan receives $3 billion-bailout from Qatar

The oil-rich Qatar is the fourth nation after China, Saudi Arabia and UAE to help rescue Pakistan as it tries to overcome a ballooning balance-of-payments crisis.

Pakistan’s rupee is close to becoming the world’s biggest loser this month

Pakistan’s managed-float currency dropped more than 5% in May & breached 150 per dollar, after govt agreed to another IMF bailout.

Currency, forex, growth in free fall: Economy is Pakistan’s real crisis, IMF only saviour

Pakistan has reserves for just two months of imports, and also faces a current account, fiscal deficit, inflation crisis.

Pakistan to seek IMF bailout as forex reserves fall dangerously

Pakistan’s forex reserves have plunged 40% in 2018 to lowest in almost 4 years. It’s running twin current-account and budget deficits of more than 5% of GDP.

On Camera

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.