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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s economic indicators are showing positive signs, with an agenda of painful reforms and privatization on track, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Friday, ahead of an IMF board meeting to decide on a $1.1 billion funding for the country.

The prime minister said in an address to his cabinet that was telecast live, that exports and remittances had shown a rise within one-and-a-half month of his government.

The IMF board is meeting on Monday to decide on the disbursement of the second and last tranche of a $3 billion standby arrangement Islamabad secured last summer to avert a sovereign default. With a chronic balance of payment crisis, Pakistan needs $24 billion in payments for debt and interest servicing in the next fiscal year starting July 1 - three times more than its central bank’s foreign currency reserves.

IMF Executive Board to meet April 29 on Pakistan’s SBA

The South Asian nation is seeking yet another long-term, larger IMF loan. Finance Minister, Muhammad Aurangzeb, has said Islamabad could secure a staff-level agreement on the new program by early July.

If successful, it would be the 24th IMF bailout for Pakistan.

The IMF-led structural reforms require Pakistan to raise its tax to GDP ratio from around 9% to at least 13%-14%, stop losses in state-owned enterprise and manage its energy sector losses which run into trillions of rupees.

“It is not just for an antibiotic to work anymore. It needs a surgery,” Sharif said.

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IMTIAZ CASSUM AGBOATWALA Apr 27, 2024 12:16pm
More of wishful thinking than reality. See where the inflation is going .
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zh Apr 27, 2024 10:27pm
He is living in a fool's world.
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