business
June 10, 2017
Remittances up 21.36 percent to $1.867 billion in May
KARACHI: Workers’ remittances fell 2.13 percent to $17.463 billion during 11 months of the current fiscal year, but the last month saw almost one-fourth rise month-on-month in inflows ahead of Eid-al-Fitr. The State Bank of Pakistan data showed on Friday that the country received $17.843 billion in remittances from expatriates in the July-May period of 2015/16. In May, remittances from expatriate Pakistanis amounted to $1.867 billion, up 21.36 percent over April and 3.77 percent...