A deputy chief of Pakistan's spy agency met currency exchange firms this week to address a sharp slide in the rupee, prompting a security crackdown on "black market dollar trade", the head of the country's forex association told Reuters on Thursday.
The action helped stabilise the open market rate and the rupee recovered against the dollar by one rupee on Thursday, said Exchange Companies Association of Pakistan Chairman Malik Muhammad Bostan.
"The dollar is down one rupee today in the open market. This is because we're finally getting the supply we need," Bostan said. A spokesperson for the spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
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