{"id":101986,"date":"2025-04-21T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=101986"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T08:11:11","slug":"pakistan-posts-historic-current-account-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-posts-historic-current-account-surplus.html","title":{"rendered":"Pak posts historic current account surplus in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: Pakistan recorded its highest-ever monthly current account surplus in March 2025, posting a surplus of $1.2 billion, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday. The figure marks a sharp reversal from a revised deficit of $97 million in February and reflects a year-on-year increase of 230% compared to the $363 million surplus in March 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brokerage firms Topline Securities and Arif Habib Limited confirmed that this is the largest monthly current account surplus in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pak-achieves-usd-0-7-bn-current-account-surplus.html\">Pakistan achieves USD 0.7 bn current account surplus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The improvement was largely driven by a surge in workers\u2019 remittances, which reached $4.05 billion in March\u2014an increase of over 71% year-on-year. Higher inflows from overseas Pakistanis, combined with controlled oil imports and gradually rising exports, played a key role in strengthening the external account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total exports of goods and services stood at $3.51 billion, reflecting an 8.7% increase from the same month last year, while imports also rose by 8%, reaching $5.92 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this strong performance, the cumulative current account surplus for the first nine months of FY2024\u201325 has reached $1.86 billion, a sharp turnaround from a $1.65 billion deficit during the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistans-forex-reserves-to-hit-usd-14-bn-by-june.html\">Pakistan\u2019s forex reserves to hit USD 14 bn by June<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLower oil prices and record remittance inflows are supporting a sustainable surplus. If these trends continue, we expect the current account to remain in surplus through June FY25, possibly extending into FY26,\u201d said Khurram Schehzad, Advisor to the Finance Minister. Analysts note that muted economic growth, high inflation, tight monetary policy, and import restrictions have all contributed to narrowing the deficit, while improving external sector performance is bolstering investor sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Pakistan recorded its highest-ever monthly current account surplus in March 2025, posting a surplus of $1.2 billion, according to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday. The figure marks a sharp reversal from a revised deficit of $97 million in February and reflects a year-on-year increase of 230% compared to the $363 million surplus in March 2024. Brokerage firms Topline Securities and Arif Habib Limited confirmed that this is the largest monthly current account surplus in the country\u2019s history. Read: Pakistan achieves USD 0.7 bn current account surplus The improvement was largely driven by a surge in workers\u2019 remittances, which reached $4.05 billion in March\u2014an increase of over 71% year-on-year. Higher inflows from overseas Pakistanis, combined with controlled oil imports and gradually rising exports, played a key role in strengthening the external account. Total exports of goods and services stood at $3.51 billion, reflecting an 8.7% increase from the same month last year, while imports also rose by 8%, reaching $5.92 billion. With this strong performance, the cumulative current account surplus for the first nine months of FY2024\u201325 has reached $1.86 billion, a sharp turnaround from a $1.65 billion deficit during the same period last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":101697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[63773,37671,39638,7327,63005,63988,13263,63990,63324,34475,63986,4579,6066,63989,63987],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-arif-habib-limited","9":"tag-current-account-surplus","10":"tag-economic-recovery","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-external-account","13":"tag-fiscal-outlook","14":"tag-imports","15":"tag-khurram-shehzad","16":"tag-march-2025","17":"tag-pakistan-economy","18":"tag-record-surplus","19":"tag-remittances","20":"tag-sbp","21":"tag-topline-securities","22":"tag-workers-remittances-2","23":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan posts historic current account surplus - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With this strong performance, the cumulative current account surplus for the first nine months of FY2024\u201325 has reached....\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-posts-historic-current-account-surplus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan posts historic current account surplus - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With this strong performance, the cumulative current account surplus for the first nine months of FY2024\u201325 has reached....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-posts-historic-current-account-surplus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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