Islamabad, March 23, 2024 – Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Muhammad Aurangzeb, revealed intentions to explore Chinese investment avenues by considering the sale of Panda bonds worth up to $300 million, marking the country’s debut in the Chinese bond market.
In a significant move towards fiscal transparency and governance, Pakistan is gearing up to present its federal budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 in the first week of June.
Karachi, January 11, 2024 – In a significant development, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has granted approval for an immediate disbursement of $700 million to Pakistan.
In a recent announcement, the Pakistani government has decided to disburse the salary and pension payments for government employees ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr this month.
ISLAMABAD: The government has scheduled the presentation of the budget for fiscal year 2022/2023 in the first week of June 2022, the finance ministry said on Thursday. The finance ministry issued budget call circular 2022/2023. According to the circular, after completion of all budget documents and summaries by end of May 2022, the budget will […]
ISLAMABAD: The finance ministry has estimated that the tax collection to reach Rs5.83 trillion during current fiscal year 2021/2022 (FY22). In its monthly economic update – August 2021, the finance ministry said that in FY2021, tax revenue increased by 18.4 percent, whereas in July FY2022, tax collection climbed up by 42.5 percent, indicating a good […]
KARACHI – Pakistan’s fiscal performance for the fiscal year 2020/2021 has shown encouraging signs as the budget deficit has reduced to 7.1 percent of the GDP compared to 8.1 percent in the preceding fiscal year.
ISLAMABAD: The finance ministry is hopeful of achieving annual fiscal targets as half year (July – December) 2020/2021 fiscal position indicates that it will remain on track in the remaining half. The ministry of finance on Monday issued Mid-year Budget Review Report for Fiscal Year 2020/2021. The finance division said that the fiscal consolidation measures […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has appointed M.s Nargis Sethi as chairperson of the pay and pension commission with immediate effect. A notification issued dated October 15, 2020 by the Finance Division stated that the Prime Minister had appointed Ms. Nargis Sethi, former federal secretary, as chairperson of the pay and pension commission with immediate effect. Abdul […]
ISLAMABAD: Tax to GDP ratio has slipped to 11.4 percent in fiscal year FY20 (2019/2020) when compared with 11.6 percent in the preceding fiscal year, according to statistics released by the finance ministry. The size of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has been measured at Rs41,727 billion in fiscal year 2019/2020 as compared with Rs38,559 billion […]