{"id":88171,"date":"2025-05-09T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88171\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T19:40:11","slug":"pakistan-says-imf-clears-loan-review-frees-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88171\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan says IMF clears loan review, frees $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/international-monetary-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Monetary Fund<\/a> executive board approved on Friday the first review of its $7 billion program with Pakistan, freeing $1 billion in cash, the Pakistani government said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif expresses satisfaction over the approval of a $1 billion tranche by the International Monetary Fund (<a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/imf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMF<\/a>) for Pakistan,&#8221; his office said in a statement.<br \/><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/on-imfs-lifeline-pakistan-struggles-as-india-wields-its-economic-power-to-block-handouts\/articleshow\/121033280.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\" data-type=\"tilCustomLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">On IMF\u2019s lifeline, Pakistan struggles as India wields its economic power to block handouts<\/a><br \/>The review approval brings disbursements to $2 billion within the $7 billion program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/india-abstains-from-voting-on-pakistans-bailout-package-at-imf-meeting\/articleshow\/121036417.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\" data-type=\"tilCustomLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India abstains from voting on Pakistan\u2019s bailout package at IMF meeting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/118783427.cms.png\" width=\"90%\"\/>Live Events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK: The International Monetary Fund executive board approved on Friday the first review of its $7 billion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,10647,42044,42040,42046,12705,42041,42045,42042,42039,42043,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-88171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-imf","11":"tag-imf-disbursement-pakistan","12":"tag-imf-loan-review","13":"tag-imf-program-approval","14":"tag-international-monetary-fund","15":"tag-pakistan-1-billion-imf-funding","16":"tag-pakistan-bailout-package","17":"tag-pakistan-economic-program","18":"tag-pakistan-imf","19":"tag-shehbaz-sharif-imf-approval","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114479577413222139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}