March 2, 2023
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Pakistan on its knees before IMF

The cash-strapped country is undertaking key measures to secure a $1 billion tranche from the IMF under the ninth review of the EFF….reports Asian Lite News

Desperate to revive the loan programme to stabilise the falling economy, Pakistan gave in to the International Monetary Funds (IMF) demand of imposing a power surcharge on the consumers in the next fiscal year.

The Pakistani officials are baffled by IMF’s “shifting goalposts” as the country makes hectic efforts to woo the lender which has set new conditions to unlock the $6.5 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) signed in 2019, Geo News reported.

The cash-strapped country is undertaking key measures to secure a $1 billion tranche from the IMF under the ninth review of the EFF.

Measures include raising taxes, and removing blanket subsidies and artificial curbs on the exchange rate, Geo News reported.

Succumbing to one more IMF demand, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC), which met under the chair of Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, has approved the slapping of a power surcharge up to 3.82 PKR per unit from March to June 2023.

The power surcharge of Rs2.63 per unit on average will continue to be charged from power consumers in the next fiscal year 2023-24 in order to implement another tough condition imposed by the IMF for reviving the stalled program.

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