Fact 1: As of July 12, the State Bank of Pakistan's (SBP) net liquid foreign exchange reserves stood at $9.4 billion. Fact 2: Over the next five years, our gross financing requirement stands at $123 billion. Fact 3: This substantial disparity underscores a significant external financing challenge.
Pakistan's external debt is primarily composed of four components: multilateral, bilateral, bonds and commercial debt from banks. Approximately 40 per cent or $55 billion of the total external debt is owed to multilateral institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the World Bank, and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), as well as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) with a debt of $7.6 billion. Given the nature of these institutions and Pakistan's ongoing engagements with them, a significant portion of this debt is........