Pakistan, April 12 -- Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is set to participate in the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings this week, during which he is expected to participate in over 50 high-level engagements. The timing could not be more precarious, with Pakistan still under a $7 billion, 37-month IMF programme. The war in the Middle East has already injected volatility into oil markets while domestic prices climb with a persistence that has begun to feel structural. Pakistan's headline CPI inflation rose 7.3 per cent year-on-year in March, and the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics says the weekly Sensitive Price Indicator for this week ending was up 12.15pc over the same week last year, with diesel, petrol, LP...
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