{"id":76093,"date":"2021-05-19T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=76093"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T13:21:16","slug":"foreign-reserves-at-all-time-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-reserves-at-all-time-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Foreign reserves at all-time high for 11th consecutive month: SPB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently announced that remittances by overseas Pakistanis have risen to an all-time high of USD 2.8 billion in April, according to news sources. This is an increase of 56%, as compared to the same time period a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, from July 2020 to April 2021, workers\u2019 remittances increased by 29% (USD 24.2 billion) as compared to the same period last year \u2014 \u00a0setting a new record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-receives-usd-2bn-in-remittances-for-10th-month.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pakistan receives USD 2bn+ in remittances for 10th consecutive month<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country\u2019s central bank revealed that the cash inflows mainly came from Saudi Arabia (USD 6.40 billion), United Arab Emirates (USD 5.08 billion), United Kingdom (USD 3.33 billion), and the United States (USD 2.22 billion). In a statement posted on his official Twitter account, Prime Minister Imran Khan praised the overseas Pakistanis for believing in the spirit of \u2018Naya Pakistan\u2019 and in trusting the current government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a similar development, Pakistan\u2019s foreign exchange reserves have risen by USD 168 million. With the aforementioned recent rise in remittances, the SBP\u2019s reserves surged to USD 15.775 billion (up from USD 15.598 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) recently announced that remittances by overseas Pakistanis have risen to an all-time high of USD 2.8 billion in April, according to news sources. This is an increase of 56%, as compared to the same time period a year ago. Furthermore, from July 2020 to April 2021, workers\u2019 remittances increased by 29% (USD 24.2 billion) as compared to the same period last year \u2014 \u00a0setting a new record. Read: Pakistan receives USD 2bn+ in remittances for 10th consecutive month The country\u2019s central bank revealed that the cash inflows mainly came from Saudi Arabia (USD 6.40 billion), United Arab Emirates (USD 5.08 billion), United Kingdom (USD 3.33 billion), and the United States (USD 2.22 billion). In a statement posted on his official Twitter account, Prime Minister Imran Khan praised the overseas Pakistanis for believing in the spirit of \u2018Naya Pakistan\u2019 and in trusting the current government. In a similar development, Pakistan\u2019s foreign exchange reserves have risen by USD 168 million. With the aforementioned recent rise in remittances, the SBP\u2019s reserves surged to USD 15.775 billion (up from USD 15.598 billion).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":60606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[45950,45949,45743,45952,45951],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-foreign-reserve-april-2021","9":"tag-foreign-reserves-at-all-time-high-for-11th-consecutive-month","10":"tag-pakistan-forex-reserves","11":"tag-remittances-sent-from-ksa","12":"tag-spb-data-on-foreign-reserves","13":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan\u2019s foreign reserves at all-time high: SPB - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The country\u2019s central bank revealed that the cash inflows mainly came from Saudi Arabia (USD 6.40 billion), United Arab Emirates (USD 5.08 billion)...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-reserves-at-all-time-high.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan\u2019s foreign reserves at all-time high: SPB - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The country\u2019s central bank revealed that the cash inflows mainly came from Saudi Arabia (USD 6.40 billion), United Arab Emirates (USD 5.08 billion)...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/foreign-reserves-at-all-time-high.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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