{"id":36048,"date":"2025-09-24T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/36048\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:55:16","slug":"pm-shehbaz-urges-imf-to-factor-in-flood-impact-in-economic-review-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/36048\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz urges IMF to factor in flood impact in economic review – Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that Pakistan was making steady progress towards meeting the various targets and commitments under the IMF programme, however, the impact of the recent floods on Pakistan\u2019s economy must be factored into the IMF\u2019s review.<\/p>\n

The prime minister, in a meeting with Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva, appreciated the IMF\u2019s longstanding constructive partnership with Pakistan, which had strengthened further under the current chief\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.<\/p>\n

The prime minister acknowledged the IMF\u2019s timely support under various instruments, including the Stand-By Arrangement for $3 billion in FY 2024, followed by the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) of $7 billion and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) of $1.4 billion.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, with the institution of deep-rooted structural reforms, Pakistan\u2019s economy is showing positive signs of stabilisation and is now moving towards recovery,\u201d Prime Minister Shehbaz said and appreciated the IMF\u2019s support in this regard which had been instrumental in guiding the government\u2019s economic reform efforts.<\/p>\n


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The IMF managing director expressed her sympathy to all people affected by the floods and noted the importance of the damage assessment to underpin recovery priorities.<\/p>\n

The IMF chief commended the prime minister\u2019s commitment to pursuing sound macro-economic policies and reiterated the IMF\u2019s continued support as Pakistan advances the necessary economic reforms to ensure sustainable long-term economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday said that Pakistan was making steady progress towards meeting the various targets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,29664,184,29675,29678,29672,3369,85,24570,29669,29670,29667,29676,29668,29674,46,29671,29677,29665,29673,29666],"class_list":["post-36048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic-reform","tag-economy","tag-eff","tag-extended-fund-facility","tag-flood-disaster","tag-floods","tag-il","tag-imf","tag-imf-bailout","tag-imf-managing-director-kristalina-georgieva","tag-imf-package","tag-imf-programme","tag-imf-review","tag-imf-targets","tag-israel","tag-pakistan-flood-crisis","tag-pm-shehbaz-sharif","tag-resilience-and-sustainability-facility","tag-rsf","tag-stand-by-arrangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048","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=36048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}