The Pak Banker - 2024-03-26

• Rolling back the NFC, again
• World Bank approves $149.7m for digital and flood resilience projects
• Persistent fiscal deficit, debt repayments cause high gross financing: PIAF
• Pakistan needs a fresh loan from IMF: Mian Zahid
• Net FDI in 8MFY24 fell by 17pc y-o-y
• WB rates implementa­tion progress on KP IAIP as ‘moderately satisfacto­ry’
• PM directs swift action against tax defaulters, evaders
• SC military trial verdict: KP govt requests withdrawal of appeal
• Aitchison College principal resigns over 'preferenti­al treatment' for Ahad Cheema's sons
• PM vows to take steps aimed at eradicatin­g tuberculos­is
• Retailers registrati­on scheme begins on April 1
• Power sector woes: PM assigns tasks to ministries
• Dollar dips as Japan and China fortify their currencies
• Bitcoin price at risk as long-term investors move to sell $6.4b BTC
• Bank of the Philippine Islands raises $400m from offshore debt market
• PCB to decide Shaheen Afridi's future as T20 captain after national camp
• The richest race day returns with $35 million prize purse
• Oil is 'lifeblood of modern life,' calls to abandon it 'wrong': OPEC chief
• Maintainin­g security
• Silencing the press
• Doddering doyens
• IHK political curbs
• Terms of re-engagement
• Trump gives Biden one big lift
• ‘Islamic resistance’ is weaponizes­ing Arab states
• How will the Ukraine war end?
• Experts’ take on democracy
• Is the US on the brink of another civil war?
• Islamic State still a threat in Iraq, US ambassador says
• Nuclear fusion industry leaders meet in US capital as competitio­n with China looms
• UN agency a ‘lifeline of hope’ for Palestinia­ns: Guterres
• ‘Terrorists have no nationalit­y,’ Tajik leader tells Russia’s Putin
• UNSC set to vote on ‘immediate’ Gaza ceasefire as famine worsens
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• Jordanian exports to Saudi Arabia rose by 17.1% in 2023
• China’s Xi calls for tech self-reliance amid US tension
• Thriving in the job market amidst the AI boom
• The pursuit of prosperity or a perpetual pain
• Deposit rates climb higher after Turkish Central Bank’s move
• Pakistani Rupee remains largely stable against US dollar
• BoE to hold rate despite slowing inflation
• Beijing faces a ‘fork in the road’, says IMF
• KCB Group to sell National Bank of Kenya to Nigeria’s Access

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