Due mainly to the SBP’s record profits, the country’s fiscal balance — the gap between national revenues and expenditures — reached a surplus of Rs1.696tr, or 1.4pc of GDP, in the first ...

Pakistan has reported a fiscal surplus of Rs. 1.7 trillion or 1.4 percent of GDP and a primary surplus of Rs. 3 trillion or 2.4 percent of GDP in 1QFY25 based on the last 2 decades’ data.