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Pakistan has registered economic recovery despite Covid-19  lockdowns. The State Bank of Pakistan, following the meeting of its   Monetary Policy Committee, increased the policy rate by 25 basis points to 7.25% on Monday.

Research analyst Raza Jafri says that the State Bank wants to make economic growth sustainable and therefore it has raised interest rates.

Jafri explained that in the past, Pakistan registered growth only for a  few years, and soon lost momentum because the growth was not sustainable.

A cycle was observed: The current account deficit would reach unsustainable levels and subsequently foreign exchange reserves would also fall. Different governments had to slam on the brakes after every two to three years of growth.

Bilal Hussain explains the numbers in simple terms.

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 20, 2021

• There isn't  any democracy in Sindh, but dictatorship: Fawad

• We have been targeted because we talk about people: Wahab

• PDM chief Fazlur Rehman announces rally in Karachi on July 29

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 20, 2021

• There isn't  any democracy in Sindh, but dictatorship: Fawad

• We support All-Party Conference, Fazlur Rehman

• Fawad came to Karachi to wish Father's Day: Wahab

Sindh resumes primary classes from June 21
In the last 24 hours, 27 people died from the novel coronavirus
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that Pakistan will in no way give its bases to US troops in Afghanistan

• COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa met the British High Commissioner Dr. Christian Turner
• Coronavirus positive case rate in the country recorded 2.14
• The death toll of the Ghotki train crash increased to 67

* Opposition protests outside the Balochistan Assembly
* Mr. Speaker! Congratulations on your new Pakistan, Bilawal
* Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government presented a budget of Rs 1,118 billion 

• Opposition lawmakers ‘attack’ Balochistan Assembly ahead of budget
• Rain lashes parts of Karachi
• E-voting machines threaten status quo: Babar Awan

• Don't use the term 'Riyasat e Madina' for this incompetent government: Bilawal
• Coronavirus positivity rate drops to below 2 percent

• Country is headed in the right direction: PM Imran Khan

• Dust storm hits Karachi's Superhighway
• Another 46 people die of coronavirus in Pakistan
• Karachi Kings will clash with Lahore Qalandars in Abu Dhabi today

* I'm ready to hold anyone's knees for Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif
* Those who call abuse the culture of Punjab should be ashamed, CM Buzdar
* Air Chief visits Pakistan Navy War College Lahore 

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 16, 2021

• National Assembly budget session adjourned for the second consecutive day

• Seven NA members barred to enter into Parliament over 'misconduct'

• CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah makes a blunder in the post-budget press conference

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 16, 2021

• National Assembly budget session adjourned for the second consecutive day

• Opposition rejects ban on entry in NA over 'misconduct'

• Govt demands one-year suspension for misconduct in NA

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 15, 2021

• Ruckus in National Assembly's budget session

• Federal budget 2021-22 is a 'fraud' with the nation: Shehbaz

• Sindh tables Rs 1.4t budget for the FY 2021-22

• Sindh to announce budget today 

• Operation to demolish Aladdin Shopping Mall and Pavilion End Club in Karachi will start today.

• Ogra has sent a summary to revise petroleum prices to the Energy Ministry

SAMAA Headlines 09 am – June 15, 2021

• Sindh to announce provincial budget

• National Assembly budget session to resume at 4pm

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 14, 2021

• Supreme Court bashes PPP for 'bad governance'

• Sindh has been discriminated: chief minister

• Exclusive: Illegal transaction worth Rs8m

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 14, 2021

• Punjab tables budget for the FY 2021-22

• CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah bashes PTI govt

• Continue removing encroachments in Karachi: SC

SAMAA Headlines 12 pm – June 14, 2021

• Sindh resumes 6th to 8th classes with 50% attendance

• A three-year-old child died after a kite string slit his throat in Lahore.

• The first spell of monsoon rains will hit Pakistan between June 27 and June 30

SAMAA Headlines 09 am – June 14, 2021

• Fawad Chaudhry lashed out at the Sindh government for not spending on the province’s development and police

• A three-year-old child died after a kite string slit his throat in Lahore.

• The first spell of monsoon rains will hit Pakistan between June 27 and June 30

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 13, 2021

• Pakistanis won’t be able perform Hajj this year: official

• Six schools in Quetta sealed for teaching Iranian syllabus: official

• Karachi zoo welcomes 11 fawns

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 12, 2021

• Foreign nationals won't be able to perform Haj for second year running

• World leaders should come together to fight Islamophobia: PM

• PPP's Khursheed Shah's son surrenders to police

SAMAA Headlines 03 pm – June 12, 2021

• Wants to facilitate a common man: Tarin

• Govt subsidised gas, electric tariffs, waves peak hour

• Canada attack was 'tragic,' said PM Khan on TV interview

The government has increased the minimum wage from Rs17,500 per month to Rs20,000

The overall death toll in Pakistan has reached 21,633. The country reports 1,194 fresh cases of the coronavirus.

PSL6: Quetta Gladiators will face off Peshawar Zalmi Saturday evening. 

• Govt allocates Rs739 for Karachi in Budget 2021-22

• Government has eliminated 12 types of withholding taxes

• Coronavirus claims another 57 lives in Pakistan

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 11, 2021

• PTI government tables the third budget for the fiscal year 2021-22

• Food, gas, electricity industries to get subsidies

• Govt announces 614b rupees package for Karachi

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 11, 2021

• PTI government tables the third budget for the fiscal year 2021-22

• Salaries, pensions of federal employees increased by 10%

• Naya Pakistan: taxes reduced in government schemes

• The federal budget for the fiscal year 2021 to 2022 will be presented today

• Exams for classes 10 and 12 will begin in Sindh from July 5 and July 26, respectively

• Walk-in vaccination for Pakistanis above the age of 18 years begins

SAMAA Headlines 09 am – June 10, 2021

• Finance Minister Shaukat Tareen will release economic survey

• Coronavirus kills another 76 people in Pakistan

• Power shortfall rises to 4,000MWs

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 09, 2021

• Energy crisis worsens in Pakistan with a shortfall of 4000MW

• Pakistan vows to vaccinate 70 million people this year

• There is no competition with PPP, not even the target: Maryam

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 09, 2021

• Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurates 'one-window' Ehsaas center in Islamabad

• Pakistan, China relations are like 'brothers', Army Chief

• Pakistan eases COVID restriction in the country

• Justin Trudeau should play the role of New Zealand's Prime Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi

• Spending billion rupees in Sindh, Federal Minister Asad Umar

• More than 70 people died of novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours

SAMAA Headlines 09 am – June 09, 2021

• Canada mourns a ‘model family’ that was killed in truck-ramming attack

• PM demands the world make collective efforts to root out Islamophobia

• A French man slapped President Emmanuel Macron during

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 08, 2021

• Candian man kills Muslim family in Onttario

• West should pay attention to Islamophobia: Khan

• Ghotki train accident, preliminary report released

• Important virtual negotiations between Pakistan and IMF
• Action will be taken against responsible officers, Azam Swati
• Canadian Prime Minister should take immediate steps to protect Muslims, Shah Mehmood Qureshi

• Pakistan Railways restores Karachi-Peshawar track after Ghotki train crash
• An anti-polio campaign has kicked off across the country
• In the last 24 hours, 1 thousand and 383 positive coronavirus cases reported throughout the country 

• Ghotki: Train crash death toll rises to 63 

• Stands with the Muslim community, Canadian Prime Minister 

•The rate of positive cases of coronavirus in the country has decreased to less than 3%

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 07, 2021

• Train had technical fault, railway administration knew about it: eye witness

• Thank God this is the first accident of the year: Firdous Ashiq Awan

• Arsonists involved in Bahria Town incident send on remand

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 07, 2021

• At least 40 people were killed in a train crash near Ghotki

• Ghotki train accident: ‘Mechanical fault apparently causes derailment’

• Cheif minister Sindh writes 'second letter' to the prime minister

• At least 36 killed in Pakistan train crash

• Asad Umar criticizes Sindh Govt  

• More than 1 thousand coronavirus positive cases reported in the country 

• PM orders a comprehensive investigation into railway safety fault lines
• Economy restored in Pakistan despite the Corona pandemic 

• Schools opened in Punjab from today
• Trains accident: 36 dead, more than 50 injured
• Educational institutions opened in Sindh from ninth to university

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 05, 2021

• Global warming will be catastrophic unless course is mended: PM Imran Khan

• Fawad Chaudhry invites opposition to sit together for election reforms

• Shah Mehmood Qureshi takes jibe at PDM

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 05, 2021

• PPP, PML-N separated after a 'brief relationship': Fawad

• There is neither 'Raiwind's PM', nor 'Nawabshah's President, Sanullah schools Bilawal

• PML-N demands Prime Minister's COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund-2020 to made public

SAMAA Headlines 03 pm – June 05, 2021

• Pakistan hosts the World Environment Day with UNEP

• PPP, PML-N separated after a 'brief relationship': Fawad

• PML-N demands Prime Minister's COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund-2020 to made public

• Pakistan will be hosting the World Environment Day with UNEP
• Prime Minister's determination to meet the target of billion trees
• Climate change increases cloud burst

• PM Imran said that by taking away Kashmir’s autonomous power, India has crossed the red line
• Karachi traders want shops to close at 8pm
• In the last 24 hours, 84 people died from the novel coronavirus

SAMAA Headlines 09 pm – June 04, 2021

• PDM wants establishment to topple the government: Imran Khan

• Why 'Raiwind's PM' is in London, Bilawal asks Imran

• 'Return all the money deposited in Swiss Banks'

SAMAA Headlines 06 pm – June 04, 2021

• PDM wants establishment to topple the government: Imran Khan

• Govt has failed on economics miserably: Bilawal

• More corruption, the higher rank you get, Farrukh gibes at PPP

SAMAA Headlines 03 pm – June 04, 2021

• PDM wants establishment to topple the government: Imran Khan

• Share COVID fund details with the nation, Bilawal tells PM

• Pakistan-Egypt begin first-ever joint air defence exercise

• PDM wants establishment to topple the government: Imran Khan
• The nation will not forgive Imran Khan, Chairman PP Bilawal Bhutto
• 1,800 new coronavirus cases were reported across the country