{"id":446478,"date":"2026-02-26T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446478\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:34:10","slug":"pakistani-loss-making-soes-drain-government-funds-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/446478\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani loss-making SOEs drain government funds, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">$7.4bn backing for such firms higher than IMF bailout as reform pressure mounts<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/0\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260224 pakistan soes\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">A man in Karachi uses a battery-operated fan to cool off during a\u00a0power\u00a0outage in the June heat of\u00a02025. Pakistan&#8217;s electricity companies are struggling with dilapidated infrastructure blamed for frequent outages. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p>ADNAN AAMIR<\/p>\n<p>February 26, 2026 10:25 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">ISLAMABAD &#8212; Pakistan&#8217;s latest report on state-owned enterprises lays bare the scale of public money flowing into loss-making companies, strengthening the argument for privatization and deeper structural reform, analysts say, particularly as the country remains under the scrutiny of the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy $7.4bn backing for such firms higher than IMF bailout as reform pressure mounts A man in Karachi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,147357,1294,12354,80,162054,44744,1058,4848,118634,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-446478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-drain","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-funds","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-loss-making","14":"tag-pakistani","15":"tag-report","16":"tag-says","17":"tag-soes","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}