{"id":9326,"date":"2026-02-14T21:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9326"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:32:23","slug":"soes-profit-falls-13-finance-ministry-warns-of-rising-debt-threat-to-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9326","title":{"rendered":"SOEs Profit Falls 13%, Finance Ministry Warns of Rising Debt Threat to Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"455\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Islamabad<\/span><\/span> (HRNW) \u2013 The gross profit of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) declined by 13 percent to Rs 709.9 billion from Rs 820.7 billion in the fiscal year 2024\u201325, while the Ministry of Finance has warned that the increasing debts of SOEs pose a serious threat to Pakistan\u2019s financial stability and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"457\" data-end=\"895\">According to the Ministry of Finance\u2019s annual performance report, the government provided financial assistance of Rs 2.1 trillion to state-owned enterprises during the last fiscal year, but the net cash return to the government was only Rs 40.7 billion. The report further revealed that the net financial flow dropped sharply from Rs 458.2 billion in the previous year to Rs 40.7 billion, reflecting a significant decline of 91 percent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"897\" data-end=\"1033\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em>Support independent journalism and help us continue bringing important economic updates:<\/em><br data-start=\"985\" data-end=\"988\" \/><em>Donate here:<\/em><strong> <a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/donate-us\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1001\" data-end=\"1033\" data-is-last-node=\"\">https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/donate-us\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad (HRNW) \u2013 The gross profit of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) declined by 13 percent to Rs 709.9 billion from Rs 820.7 billion in the fiscal year 2024\u201325, while the Ministry of Finance has warned that the increasing debts of SOEs pose a serious threat to Pakistan\u2019s financial stability and economic growth. According to the Ministry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9328,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9326\/revisions\/9328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}