{"id":6794,"date":"2025-06-16T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:34:27","slug":"maintaining-interest-rate-at-11-is-a-disappointing-decision-ayub-marriani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/16\/maintaining-interest-rate-at-11-is-a-disappointing-decision-ayub-marriani\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining Interest Rate at 11% is a Disappointing Decision: Ayub Marriani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad (Syed Javed Hassan Shah): Ayub Marriani, President of the Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has termed the State Bank\u2019s decision to maintain the interest rate at 11% as disappointing. He stated that inflation in the country has significantly decreased, and it is imperative to reduce the interest rate to a single digit to boost business activities. A high interest rate increases the cost of borrowing, negatively impacting private-sector investment and industrial growth. He emphasized that given the decline in inflation, there was room for a more aggressive cut in the interest rate.  <br><br>President Ayub Marriani further said that the interest rate should be reduced immediately to lower production costs and enable Pakistani exporters to compete in regional and international markets. A lower interest rate is crucial for investment, job creation, and sustainable economic growth. The business community has long been demanding a single-digit interest rate to reduce the cost of doing business and stimulate economic\u00a0activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad (Syed Javed Hassan Shah): Ayub Marriani, President of the Quetta Chamber of Commerce and Industry, has termed the State Bank\u2019s decision to maintain the interest rate at 11% as disappointing. He stated that inflation in the country has significantly decreased, and it is imperative to reduce the interest rate to a single digit to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6800,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions\/6800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}