In its latest report "International Debt Report 2022, Updated International Debt Statistics," the World Bank said that the total external debt stocks were at USD 130.433 billion by 2021.
IMF demanded additional information, including details of shelved development projects that have now been taken up again as a top priority of the government, The Express Tribune reported.
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 23 (ANI): World Bank Vice President for South Asia, Martin Raiser on Sunday advised Pakistan to take internal measures along with help from the international community by implementing economic reforms to recover from the cataclysmic floods.
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 20 (ANI): Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif continues to face global embarrassment over appointing Ishaq Dar as the country's Finance Minister as the Minister had fled Pakistan after an anti-corruption court in Pakistan indicted him in the Panama Papers case in 2017.
When Dar arrived at the US airport, an angry protestor was heard shouting “You are a liar. You are a liar” and “Chor-Chor.” Washington: Pakistan’s newly appointed finance minister Ishaq Dar was “welcomed” by angry protestors with chants of “liar” and “chor” (thief) at the Washington airport in the US...
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Islamabad [Pakistan], October 12 (ANI): Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the long-term deposit ratings to Caa1 from B3 of five Pakistani banks.
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 6 (ANI): Pakistan's ruling coalition called former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan a "traitor" and warned him against attacking Islamabad.
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 1 (ANI): Governments may come and go, but Pakistan's economic woes - and its love and hate relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - remain constant.
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 30 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has polished the "big boots" well, his predecessor Imran Khan said in a veiled reference to the Pakistani establishment, media reports said.
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 28 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) senator Ishaq Dar, who was involved in several corruption cases, was handed the responsibility of finance and revenue on Wednesday, shortly after he was sworn in as federal minister.