Published on, Sept. 8 -- September 7, 2025 11:52 PM

As the Monetary Policy Committee of the State Bank of Pakistan prepares to announce its decision on September 15, 2025, the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry's Businessmen Panel (BMP) has called on the central bank to bring down the key policy rate into single digits to revive the economy.

Former FPCCI president and BMP chairman Mian Anjum Nisar said that already inflation and an excessively high mark-up rate have drastically reduced private sector borrowings during the first quarter of the current fiscal year and warned that maintaining the current rate would deepen the slowdown rather than contain inflation, which is largely being driven by supply-side disrupti...