Investment

For five years, the Roshan Digital Account (RDA) was strictly a diaspora product — built for overseas Pakistanis to send money home, buy Naya Pakistan Certificates, and invest in property…

For most of the last decade FBR valuation tables only moved in one direction: up. That changed in 2026. Under pressure from a stalled transaction market, the Federal Board of…

Pakistan closed FY26 with the largest remittance haul in its history: $41.6 billion, up 8.6% from $38.3bn in FY25. Remittances outpaced exports and were, by the State Bank's own framing,…

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…