{"id":15013,"date":"2026-09-09T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=15013"},"modified":"2026-09-09T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T10:36:09","slug":"remittances-rise-despite-middle-east-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?p=15013","title":{"rendered":"Remittances Rise Despite Middle East Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KARACHI:<\/strong>&nbsp;Remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis increased in August despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the&nbsp;<strong>State Bank of Pakistan (SBP)<\/strong>, overseas Pakistanis sent&nbsp;<strong>$3.7 billion<\/strong>&nbsp;in remittances in August 2026, marking a&nbsp;<strong>0.7% increase<\/strong>&nbsp;from July and a&nbsp;<strong>16.5% rise<\/strong>&nbsp;compared with August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the first two months of the current fiscal year, Pakistan received a total of&nbsp;<strong>$7.3 billion<\/strong>&nbsp;in remittances, compared with $6.4 billion during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SBP said remittances during the first two months of the current fiscal year increased by&nbsp;<strong>14.7% year-on-year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI:&nbsp;Remittances sent by overseas Pakistanis increased in August despite the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. According to the&nbsp;State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), overseas Pakistanis..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-09T153553.847.png",800,927,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-09T153553.847-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-09T153553.847-259x300.png",259,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-09T153553.847-768x890.png",768,890,true],"large":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-09T153553.847.png",800,927,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-09T153553.847.png",800,927,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/paksouch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/11111-2026-09-09T153553.847.png",800,927,false]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Business<\/a>","tag_info":"Business","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15015,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15013\/revisions\/15015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paksouch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}