PRA extends date of payments, filing returns till April 30

LAHORE: Amid the coronavirus outbreak and lockdowns, the Punjab Revenue Authority (PRA) on Thursday extended the date of submission of payments and...

Pandemic to bring Asia’s 2020 growth to halt for first time in 60 years: IMF

TOKYO: Asia's economic growth this year will grind to a halt for the first time in 60 years, as the coronavirus crisis...

Pakistan expected to get debt relief from May 1: FM Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said Pakistan is expected to get debt relief from the 1st of May. In an interview on...

Pakistan’s exports to fall $3bn owing to coronavirus: Dawood

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce Abdul Razak Dawood has said the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has called for...
Pakistan-China

Pakistan seeks China’s support on debt relief efforts

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh has sought China’s support for Pakistan’s efforts to seek...

Pakistan asks Germany, UK for debt relief

ISLAMABAD: Following up on his call for a ‘Global Initiative on Debt Relief’, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday held a telephonic conversation...

Covid-19 ‘Great Lockdown’ to shrink global economy by 3pc in 2020: IMF

WASHINGTON: The global economy is expected to shrink by 3 per cent during 2020 in a stunning coronavirus-driven collapse of activity that...
G7-coronavirus

G7 backs debt moratorium for poor countries if G20 creditors, Paris Club join

WASHINGTON: Group of Seven (G7) finance officials on Tuesday vowed to continue to act as needed to combat the coronavirus pandemic and...

Debt levels expected to sharply increase in 2020, stabilise as economies recover: IMF

WASHINGTON: Global debt is expected to increase significantly over the next year, the top economist of the International Monetary Fund said on...
Kamyab Jawan programme

‘Kamyab Jawan’: PM decides to enhance loaning limit up to Rs25m

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday decided to further provide greater entrepreneurship opportunities to the country’s youth by enhancing loan limits...
JPMorgan-US

JPMorgan profit falls on virus loan provisions

JPMorgan Chase & Co reported a 68 per cent slump in first-quarter profit on Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic forced the largest...

IMF acknowledges Pakistan’s measures to contain spread of Covid-19

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has acknowledged Pakistan's measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Radio Pakistan reported on Tuesday. IMF's recent...

Global Investment Consortium mulls investing billions of dollars in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: At the time when coronavirus pandemic has unnerved global economies and Pakistan is no exception, Pakistan holds good news for the...

WB sees ‘huge willingness’ to suspend debt payments for poorest countries

WASHINGTON: The World Bank is seeing “a huge willingness” on the part of official bilateral creditors to suspend debt payments by the...

ADB triples Covid-19 response package to $20bn

ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday tripled the size of its response to the novel coronavirus pandemic to $20 billion and approved...