Investment

On Monday 27 July 2026, the State Bank of Pakistan's Monetary Policy Committee held the policy rate at 11.5% — a second consecutive pause. The MPC pointed to headline inflation…

Section 114C of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 — inserted by the Finance Act, 2025 — is the most misunderstood provision in Pakistani real estate right now. Half the WhatsApp…

In April 2026 the IMF cut Pakistan's FY2026-27 growth forecast to 3.5% (down from 4.1%) and raised its inflation projection to 8.4% — a sharp jump from the 7% it…

For three years, Pakistani property buyers grew used to a simple tailwind: inflation was cooling, the State Bank was cutting, and developer installment plans quietly got cheaper in real terms…

Most overseas Pakistanis approach a Rawalpindi purchase the same way: wire the dollars, convert to rupees, hand over a banker's cheque, and watch a hard-currency nest egg turn into a…

The State Bank of Pakistan's Monetary Policy Committee meets on Monday, 27 July 2026, and the market has effectively already voted. In the pre-MPC poll circulating among brokerages, 97% of…

On 18 July 2026 the federal government did two things at once. It raised high-speed diesel by roughly Rs31 per litre to Rs354.80, and it scrapped the fortnightly pricing cycle…

Every serious investor in Rawalpindi is asking the same question this month. The State Bank held the policy rate at 11.5% on 15 June 2026, after the surprise 100 basis…

For years, overseas Pakistanis faced a frustrating trap: they earn abroad, owe no Pakistani income tax, and have no reason to file a return here — yet at the sub-registrar's…