--- title: "Large-scale manufacturing growth shows mixed results in recent months" description: "Most outlets reported growth in large-scale manufacturing, though with differing figures and emphasis. Dawn highlighted a \"paltry 0.67 per cent growth\" in August, suggesting a slowdown, while Daily Times noted a 1.85 per cent increase over the first two months of the financial year 2026-27. The framing of the trend varied, with one outlet emphasizing a decline in momentum and the other focusing on an overall positive rise." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/14795-large-scale-manufacturing-grows-by-1-85-in-july-august-2026 site: HarZaviya language: en --- # Large-scale manufacturing growth shows mixed results in recent months business · updated 17 Oct 2026, 9:01 AM PKT · 17 Oct 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets reported growth in large-scale manufacturing, though with differing figures and emphasis. Dawn highlighted a "paltry 0.67 per cent growth" in August, suggesting a slowdown, while Daily Times noted a 1.85 per cent increase over the first two months of the financial year 2026-27. The framing of the trend varied, with one outlet emphasizing a decline in momentum and the other focusing on an overall positive rise. ## Same story from 2 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **Daily Times** — [Large-scale manufacturing grows by 1.85% in July-August 2026-27](https://dailytimes.com.pk/1568411/large-scale-manufacturing-grows-by-1-85-in-july-august-2026-27/) · 17 Oct 2026, 9:01 AM PKT > The output of Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) witnessed an increase of 1.85 percent during the first two months of the current financial year 2026-27 compared to the same months of last year, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) reported on Friday. On a year-on-year basis, the LSMI’s production in August 2026 increased by 0.67 […] - **Dawn** — [Big industry output posts meagre rise](https://www.dawn.com/news/2037724/big-industry-output-posts-meagre-rise) · 17 Oct 2026, 4:56 AM PKT · 81% identical wording to the newest filing > ISLAMABAD: Large-Scale Manufacturing (LSM) posted a paltry 0.67 per cent growth in August, signalling a slowdown in the industrial sector. The Quantum Index of Manufacturing stood at 113.19 in August, up from 112.45 in the corresponding month of the last year. On a month-on-month basis, production fell by 4.96pc in August from July, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics said on Friday. In the first... ## Part of a bigger story Other stories whose coverage resembles this one, nearest first. "% related" compares whole stories, not single articles — see [what the percentages mean](https://harzaviya.com/methodology). - [Large-scale manufacturing output grows 3.03% in July 2026](https://harzaviya.com/stories/8861-large-scale-manufacturing-output-rises-3-03pc-in-july-2026) · 17 Sep 2026 · 7 outlets · 91% related - [Pakistan’s manufacturing sector shows modest annual growth](https://harzaviya.com/stories/14883-pakistan-s-manufacturing-output-edges-up-0-67-i) · 17 Oct 2026 · 3 outlets · 85% related - [Business community warns of industrial slowdown's impact on jobs and investment](https://harzaviya.com/stories/15116-businessmen-warn-industrial-slowdown-threatens-jobs) · 19 Oct 2026 · 2 outlets · 70% related 2 articles from 2 outlets, 17 Oct 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.