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Pakistan’s merchandise trade deficit in January swelled to $2.67 billion, showing a whopping 24.4 per cent increase over January 2020. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), the cumulative trade deficit in the first seven months of this fiscal year totalled $15bn — or 8.7pc higher than the deficit in the year-ago period. Fortunately, home remittances in these seven …

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