The fate of the remaining two installments of the $11.3b IMF standby loan programme is still uncertain.

In the previous auction, all bids for the 12-month paper had been rejected.

Besides political pressure at home, the government has to face the IMF delegation expected to arrive this month.

The cash crunch and inter-corporate debt continues to haunt the government.

Net foreign investment fell 15.4 per cent to $1.05b compared with $1.24b in the same period last year.

Remittances sent home by overseas Pakistanis soar to $5,291m million in the first half of current fiscal year.

Opportunities of large-scale investment: energy, corporate farming, information technology, telecommunications etc.

Condition does not apply to bank employees.

The government and industry have started working together in order to compete in the international market.

The government continues to borrow from the central bank in the face of soaring expenditures.