The chief of the Pakistan mission of the International Monetary Fund, which had agreed to a $7 billion funding agreement for the Pakistan in September, on Tuesday opened unscheduled talks with the country’s top officials, including the finance minister and governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. The International Monetary Fund’s Pakistan mission chief Nathan Porter met Finance Minister Muhammad …
ISLAMABAD: The IMF's unscheduled performance review discussions in Pakistan next week will primarily focus on the materialisation of new foreign loans to the country to fill nearly USD 2.5 billion in external financing gap for this fiscal year, according to a media report. The International Monetary Fund will assess Pakistan's external financing needs during these discussions, as some planned loans …
External financing of the government has jumped nearly five times over the previous year's figure at Rs 40,072 crore during the first five months of the current fiscal, according to an analysis of the fiscal deficit numbers by Care Ratings. At Rs 40,072 crore, the external financing of government debt is a whopping 867 per cent of the budget estimate …
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