{"id":251647,"date":"2025-11-08T17:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251647\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:39:28","slug":"pakistan-receives-3-4bn-remittances-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251647\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan receives $3.4bn remittances in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1356356_8063784_DKR-7-11-25_updates.jpg\" alt=\"A person shows US dollars at a currency exchange store in Manila, Philippines, October 21, 2022. \u2014 Reuters\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A person shows US dollars at a currency exchange store in Manila, Philippines, October 21, 2022. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Friday that Pakistan received remittances worth $3.4 billion in October 2025, marking an increase of 12% year-on-year and 7% month-on-month.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the central bank said that the cumulative inflow during July-October FY26 reached $13 billion, up 9.3% from $11.9 billion recorded in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Remittances in October were mainly sourced from Saudi Arabia ($820.9 million), the United Arab Emirates ($697.7 million), the United Kingdom ($487.7 million), and the United States ($290 million), the SBP added.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif lauded overseas Pakistanis for their contributions, saying the consistent rise in remittances reflected their trust in the government\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverseas Pakistanis are our invaluable assets, serving the nation by sending their hard-earned money,\u201d the premier said in a statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed hope that the positive trend would continue, helping stabilise Pakistan\u2019s external account and strengthening foreign exchange reserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person shows US dollars at a currency exchange store in Manila, Philippines, October 21, 2022. \u2014 Reuters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-251647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}