Inflation and fiscal deficit force Pakistan to act

The State Bank of Pakistan has raised its benchmark rate by a full percentage point to 13% in a bid to combat rampant inflation, and a worsening fiscal deficit.

Shamshad Akhtar, the governor of the central bank, said that the institution was raising the benchmark discount rate on the back of a gloomier inflation outlook. "Inflationary pressures are more alarming than ever before," Bloomberg, a media agency, quoted the governor as saying. ``Global crude and commodity prices have induced

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