KARACHI: The issue of withholding tax on banking transactions has taken a new turn as protesting traders have started investing in bonds...
Higher demand for prize bonds has pushed up their prices and certain denominations are now in short supply...
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday allowed the investors of Rs40,000 Prize Bonds (bearer) to register their bonds up to March 31, 2020...
In an announcement, the ministry of finance said the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet had decided that holders of bearer Rs40,000 Prize Bonds could avail the option to convert their bearer bonds into Premium Prize Bonds registered through 16 field offices of the State Bank of...
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to withdraw prize bonds of Rs7,500 denomination with immediate effect and allowed its conversion into registered bonds of higher denomination...
In a notification issued by the finance ministry, the government had ordered it “to withdraw Rs7,500 denomination National Prize Bonds from circulation with immediate effect under Sub-Rule 1 of Rule 4 of National Prize Bonds Rules 1999”...
RAWALPINDI: Authorities implementing the counterterrorism National Action Plan (NAP) have found that 115 among the people put on a watch list in Rawalpindi district for having links with banned groups belonged to madressah faculties...
Dawn has learnt that the CTD has written to the Rawalpindi City Police Officer (CTO) Israr Ahmed Abbasi to take appropriate measures to check the activities of the individuals on the watch list and see...
Coetzee and US Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout are among the contenders announced on Wednesday for Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction...
Coetzee, who lives in Australia, is the early bookies’ favourite and will become the first triple Booker winner if he takes the prize...
We were headed to Pakistan, a country that was foreign yet held a part of us...
I spent the flight trying to conjure up Pakistan in my head...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has issued $1 billion of five-year dollar-denominated sukuk bonds in order to offset pressure on its balance of payments and return foreign loans maturing this year...
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said during a press conference on Thursday that Pakistan received nearly $2...
KARACHI: Pakistan is set to launch $500 million in Islamic bonds to raise money for its foreign exchange reserves, a senior official said Wednesday, as a three-year IMF bailout package nears a close...
The government has started looking at key markets for the “Sukuk” bonds — a Sharia compliant instrument that offers profits instead of interest to its subscribers, a top official said...
Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will arrive in Islamabad tomorrow (Thursday) for a day-long visit "to further strengthen the bonds of friendship between the two brotherly countries", according to a statement by the UAE Ambassador in Islamabad...
The UAE crown prince had last visited Pakistan on January 6 in 2019, just weeks after his country offered $3 billion to support Pakistan's battered economy...
KARACHI: After a recent increase in the cut-off yields, the Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) attracted over $12...
05pc for 10-year bonds...
KARACHI: Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) attracted highest foreign investment of over $100 million in March alone, reflecting rising attraction for foreign investors keen to profit from returns up to 10 per cent...
The latest data issued by the State Bank of Pakistan on Wednesday showed that the foreign investors invested $240...
LAHORE: Pakistan’s dollar-denominated bonds came under selling pressure on Monday as Taliban fighters overthrew the US-backed Ashraf Ghani government in Afghanistan to seize Kabul, with the prices of five, 10- and 30-year maturity papers dropping by 1...
“The drop in prices shows some investors are bracing themselves for the potential Afghanistan fallout on Pakistan,” Fahad Rauf, head of research at Ismail Iqbal Securities, told Dawn...
KARACHI: The high-yielding long-term Pakistan Investment Bonds (PIBs) could deal a blow to the economy as volume of bonds crossed Rs4 trillion on March 31, the State Bank reported on Friday...
Since the installation of the Nawaz government in 2013, the long-term bonds were made a leading instrument to raise funds, but it could prove lethal to economy as size of debt servicing during the last two years increased rapidly...
KARACHI: Over 50 picnickers were released on personal bonds by judicial magistrates on Tuesday in cases pertaining to violating the ban on swimming in the sea imposed by the city administration...
The magistrates released them after taking personal bonds and directed them to appear before the courts concerned after the public holidays...
But with the pound hitting its lowest point against the dollar in more than 30 years and stocks in British banks, airlines and property firms plunging, investors have sought out the perceived security of government bonds across Europe...
Yields on French, Italian and Spanish 10-year-bonds also fell, although none was in such high demand as German debt...