KARACHI: Pakistan’s Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb this week told a visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation that volatility in global energy markets poses potential risks for the country’s economic recovery, as oil prices rise sharply amid the ongoing conflict between US, Israel and Iran in the Middle East. Oil prices rose sharply on Monday as US and Israeli attacks on Iran, as well as Tehran’s retaliatory strikes around the Gulf sent disruptions through the global energy supply chain.

KARACHI: Pakistan’s fragile economic recovery could come under pressure if Israel-US strikes on Iran escalate into a wider regional conflict, threatening oil supplies and…

Even if the US-Iran conflict lasts only a few days and does not turn into a prolonged war, heightened regional risk can weigh on financial flows.