{"id":118096,"date":"2025-11-06T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118096\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:21:08","slug":"circular-debt-climbs-by-rs79bn-in-q1fy26-hits-rs1-69tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118096\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular debt climbs by Rs79bn in Q1FY26, hits Rs1.69tr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1356005_7005140_image64_updates.jpg\" alt=\"The representational image shows a persons hands holding Pakistani Rupee banknotes. \u2014 AFP\/File\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The representational image shows a person&#8217;s hands holding Pakistani Rupee banknotes. \u2014 AFP\/File<\/p>\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan\u2019s circular debt in the power sector climbed by Rs79 billion during the first quarter (July-September) of fiscal year 2025-26, reaching Rs1.693 trillion by the end of September, according to a report issued by the Power Division.<\/p>\n<p>The debt stock, which stood at Rs1.614 trillion at the close of FY2024-25 in June, saw a renewed uptick in the first three months of the new fiscal year \u2014 a development that reignited concerns about inefficiencies and financial losses in the energy supply chain. Energy experts said the buildup reflected lingering power theft, weak recoveries and structural flaws within state-run distribution companies (Discos).<\/p>\n<p>Receivables from K-Electric alone stood at Rs229 billion by September 2025, including Rs42 billion in principal and Rs187 billion in markup. The growing receivables and debt pile-up have once again put pressure on the government to accelerate reforms and plug financial leakages that continue to burden the national exchequer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The representational image shows a person&#8217;s hands holding Pakistani Rupee banknotes. \u2014 AFP\/File ISLAMABAD: Pakistan\u2019s circular debt in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-118096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}