Investment

July 2026 handed Pakistani savers an unusually clean experiment. On 22 July, 24-karat gold in the local market jumped Rs4,600 in a single session to Rs433,836 per tola, opening the…

On 22 July 2026, S&P Global Ratings raised Pakistan's long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit rating to 'B' from 'B-', with a stable outlook. The agency also lifted the…

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…