{"id":1152774,"date":"2026-01-28T19:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1152774"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:29:55","slug":"pibf-wants-policy-rate-in-single-digit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/pibf-wants-policy-rate-in-single-digit\/","title":{"rendered":"PIBF wants policy rate in single digit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>LAHORE, Jan 28 (APP):Pakistan International Business Forum (PIBF) on Wednesday expressed concerns over<\/div>\n<div>maintaining status quo in the monetary policy, terming it against the expectations of the<\/div>\n<div>business community.<\/div>\n<div>In a media statement here Wednesday, PIBF President Muhammad Ejaz Tanveer, Secretary General Malik Mahmood, Chief Organizer Maaz Qazi and Coordinator R&amp;D Tahir Mavia said that the business community had clearly demanded a 3.5 percent reduction in the policy rate, but these concerns were not addressed by the monetary authorities.<\/div>\n<div>The PIBF office-bearers said that cut in policy rate is indispensable for achieving export targets,<\/div>\n<div>ensuring the smooth functioning of industrial activity, and maintaining stability in the rupee-dollar<\/div>\n<div>exchange rate, adding that interest rate must be brought down to seven per cent.<\/div>\n<div>They urged the government and State Bank of Pakistan to align monetary policy with on-ground<\/div>\n<div>economic realities and adopt a growth-supportive approach to revive business confidence<\/div>\n<div>and economic activity.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, Jan 28 (APP):Pakistan International Business Forum (PIBF) on Wednesday expressed concerns over maintaining status quo in the monetary policy, terming it against the expectations of the business community. In a media statement here Wednesday, PIBF President Muhammad Ejaz Tanveer, Secretary General Malik Mahmood, Chief Organizer Maaz Qazi and Coordinator R&amp;D Tahir Mavia said that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[6055,6056],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1152774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-pibf","tag-rate-in-single-digit","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152774"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1152774"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1152774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}