{"id":2796,"date":"2025-06-12T10:10:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2025-06-12T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T04:26:35","slug":"aurangzeb-confirms-eurobond-payment-unveils-panda-bond-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/12\/aurangzeb-confirms-eurobond-payment-unveils-panda-bond-plan","title":{"rendered":"Aurangzeb Confirms Eurobond Payment, Unveils Panda Bond Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"534\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb confirmed that Pakistan is fully prepared to repay the first $500 million installment of its Eurobond in September 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"534\">He shared the update during a post-budget press conference, assuring that all external financing commitments are under control.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"151\" data-end=\"534\">The second installment is scheduled for payment in March or April 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"1011\"><strong data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"579\">Pakistan to Issue First-Ever Panda Bond<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"1011\">In a significant development, the minister also announced Pakistan\u2019s plan to launch its inaugural Panda Bond later this year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"1011\">Efforts are underway to obtain credit enhancement from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to support this issuance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"536\" data-end=\"1011\">This move is part of the government\u2019s broader strategy to diversify sources of financing and tap into non-traditional bond markets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1459\"><strong data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1049\">Focus on Global Financial Access<\/strong><br data-start=\"1049\" data-end=\"1052\" \/>Senator Aurangzeb emphasized Pakistan\u2019s goal to improve its access to international capital markets.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1459\">He noted that as the country\u2019s international credit ratings improve, the government plans to re-enter the Euro and US dollar bond markets by 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1013\" data-end=\"1459\">The finance minister underscored that these steps are crucial for reducing reliance on a narrow set of funding sources and enhancing economic resilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb confirmed that Pakistan is fully prepared to repay the first $500 million installment of its Eurobond in September 2025. He shared the update during a post-budget press conference, assuring that all external financing commitments are under control. The second installment is scheduled for payment in March or April 2026. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1409,37,1410],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-business","tag-eurobond","tag-finance","tag-pandabond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}