Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves up by $227 million

The country's liquid foreign exchange reserves surged by some 227 million dollars during the last week. The total liquid foreign exchange reserves held by the country stood at 9.662 billion dollars on December 27, 2008 as compared to 9.435 billion dollars on December 20, 2008.
Foreign exchange reserves held by the State Bank of Pakistan stood at 6.369 billion dollars from 6.148 billion dollars, depicting an increase of 221 million dollars. In addition, foreign exchange reserves held by banks also witnessed a surge of some 5.1 million dollars to 3.292 billion dollars during the last week.