{"id":4668,"date":"2025-06-30T15:59:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T10:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2025-06-30T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T07:21:57","slug":"china-rolls-over-3-4-billion-in-loans-to-support-pakistans-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/30\/china-rolls-over-3-4-billion-in-loans-to-support-pakistans-economy","title":{"rendered":"China Rolls Over $3.4 Billion in Loans to Support Pakistan&#8217;s Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"81\" data-end=\"270\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: China has rolled over $3.4 billion in loans to Pakistan, offering a critical lifeline to the country as it works to meet foreign exchange reserve targets under its IMF agreement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"272\" data-end=\"488\">According to Reuters, the rollover includes $2.1 billion that has been held in the State Bank of Pakistan\u2019s reserves for the past three years and $1.3 billion in commercial loans that were repaid just two months ago.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"555\">The move has not yet been officially announced by the government.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"600\"><strong data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"600\">IMF Conditions Prompt Strategic Support<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"602\" data-end=\"749\">Alongside China\u2019s financial support, Pakistan has also secured $1 billion from Middle Eastern banks and $500 million through multilateral channels.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"751\" data-end=\"925\">These inflows are key to maintaining reserves above $14 billion \u2014 a core requirement under Pakistan\u2019s ongoing $7 billion bailout program with the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"968\"><strong data-start=\"927\" data-end=\"968\">Reserves Strengthened Before Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"970\" data-end=\"1033\">The deadline to meet the reserve benchmark was set for June 30.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1201\">Officials say the combined external support will not only help meet this target but also aid in stabilizing Pakistan\u2019s fragile economic position amid ongoing reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: China has rolled over $3.4 billion in loans to Pakistan, offering a critical lifeline to the country as it works to meet foreign exchange reserve targets under its IMF agreement. According to Reuters, the rollover includes $2.1 billion that has been held in the State Bank of Pakistan\u2019s reserves for the past three years &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1371,269,1863],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-china","tag-imf","tag-loans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","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=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}