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title: "SBP Maintains 11.5% Interest Rate Amid Business Community Discontent"
description: "Both outlets reported that the business community expressed disappointment with the State Bank of Pakistan for keeping the interest rate unchanged at 11.5%. ProPakistani highlighted the top business body’s criticism, while Business Recorder included a specific statement from the Acting President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers."
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# SBP Maintains 11.5% Interest Rate Amid Business Community Discontent

business · updated 28 Jul 2026, 5:40 AM PKT · 27–28 Jul 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Both outlets reported that the business community expressed disappointment with the State Bank of Pakistan for keeping the interest rate unchanged at 11.5%. ProPakistani highlighted the top business body’s criticism, while Business Recorder included a specific statement from the Acting President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **Business Recorder** — [Interest rate status quo disappoints business community](https://www.brecorder.com/news/40432054/interest-rate-status-quo-disappoints-business-community) · 28 Jul 2026, 5:40 AM PKT
  > KARACHI: Business and industrial community has termed maintaining the interest rate at 11.5 percent as harmful to the industry and exports. Saquib Fayyaz Magoon, Acting President of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI), expressed his profound disappointment over the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) decision to maintain status quo on its key policy rate following th...
- **ProPakistani** — [Business Community Angry At SBP for Not Reducing Interest Rate](https://propakistani.pk/2026/07/27/business-community-angry-at-sbp-for-not-reducing-interest-rate/) · 27 Jul 2026, 5:11 PM PKT · 80% identical wording to the newest filing
  > Pakistan’s top business body has criticized the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) for keeping the policy rate unchanged at 11.5… Read More The post Business Community Angry At SBP for Not Reducing Interest Rate appeared first on ProPakistani.

## Part of a bigger story

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- [SCCI reacts to State Bank maintaining 11.5% policy rate](https://harzaviya.com/stories/8535-business-community-split-over-sbp-move) · 17 Sep 2026 · 5 outlets · 2 developments · 91% related
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2 articles from 2 outlets, 27–28 Jul 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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