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By Mehtab Haider Published in DAWN on July 15, 2022 ISLAMABAD: After striking a staff level agreement with the IMF, Pakistan has made plans to generate approximately $9 to $10 billion in loans from other multilateral creditors, including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank through programme and project lending during the current fiscal […]

Published in DAWN on July 13, 2022 The global economic outlook has “darkened significantly” and could deteriorate further, the IMF’s managing director said Wednesday, citing Russia’s war in Ukraine and the rapid inflation it has caused, threatening widespread hunger and poverty. The warning comes just months after the IMF already cut its global growth forecast for 2022[…]

By Naeem Sahoutara Published in DAWN on July 10, 2022 On July 4, after a long legal battle, a medical board confirmed what Dua Zehra’s parents have been saying all along: that their daughter is a minor. “Now, because the medical board has declared Dua’s age near 15, it means that her actual age would be considered[…]