By Bilal Ahmed | Business Desk | October 15, 2026 | Updated: October 15, 2026 The government raised Rs660.06 billion through the State Bank’s Market Treasury Bills auction on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 — and the headline number is not the raise but the demand. Banks and investors bid a staggering Rs2.52 trillion (Rs2.64 trillion…
By Bilal Ahmed | Business Desk | October 15, 2026 | Updated: October 15, 2026 The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan has approved a new Corporate Intelligence Unit (CIU) — a dedicated surveillance cell whose entire job is to spot suspected Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes and unauthorised deposit-taking before the first investor complaint lands…
Bilal Ahmed Finance & Markets Desk · Published October 15, 2026 · Updated October 15, 2026 Pakistan Posts Worst Hunger Score in South Asia as Global Hunger Index 2026 Is Released Pakistan has scored 25.5 on the 2026 Global Hunger Index, putting it in the report’s “serious” hunger category and making it the worst-ranked country…
By Bilal Ahmed · Business Desk · Updated October 15, 2026 The Rockefeller Foundation and the OpenAI Foundation have launched a $50 million global grant program called “Cities Deliver: AI Solutions for Public Services” that will fund artificial intelligence projects run by city governments and civic organizations. Grants range from $500,000 to $2 million, applications…
The World Bank has proposed $200 million in financing to help Khyber Pakhtunkhwa expand its tax base and improve health and education services, targeting a near-doubling of the province’s own tax revenue from Rs64 billion to Rs122 billion by June 2031. The proposal, revealed in a World Bank document this week, is part of a…
By Bilal Ahmed | Business Desk | October 14, 2026 | Updated: October 14, 2026 Pakistan’s passenger car sales jumped 43% year-on-year in the first quarter of FY27, climbing to about 41,700 units in July–September 2026 from roughly 29,300 in the same period last year, according to data released by the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association…
By Bilal Ahmed | Business Desk | October 14, 2026 | Updated: October 14, 2026 Quantum Data Technologies Limited (PSX: QTECH) has signed a Strategic Cooperation and Market Development Framework Agreement with China’s Guangzhou Great Power Energy & Technology Co., Ltd. to introduce lithium-based battery energy storage systems in Pakistan and progressively undertake their local…
Pakistan’s gas supply system got a much-needed boost on Tuesday as the LNG vessel Al-Areesh berthed at Engro’s LNG terminal at 11:05am and regasification began at noon — the country’s first LNG cargo of October. The shipment from Qatar is injecting 150 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of regasified LNG into the national network…
Pakistan has been elected to chair the Governing Council of the Borrowers’ Platform, a grouping of more than 30 developing countries, at the platform’s first-ever council meeting held on October 12, 2026, in Bangkok on the sidelines of the World Bank Group–IMF Annual Meetings 2026. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb accepted the chairmanship on Pakistan’s behalf…
The International Monetary Fund now expects Pakistan’s inflation to hit 9.9% in FY2026-27, up sharply from the 8.4% it had projected as recently as July. GDP growth, meanwhile, is stuck at 3.5% — well below the government’s 4% target. The numbers come from the Fund’s October 2026 World Economic Outlook, released on October 13 at…