{"id":92533,"date":"2023-02-23T17:40:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=92533"},"modified":"2023-02-23T17:41:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T12:41:33","slug":"imf-staff-level-meeting-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imf-staff-level-meeting-february.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt-IMF staff-level meeting in last week of February: Finance Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Finance Ministry of Pakistan has announced that the government is expected to hold a staff-level meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the last week of February, news sources reported on February 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/170-bn-imf-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt to raise PKR 170 bn to resume IMF agreement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting is expected to discuss the progress made by Pakistan in implementing the economic reform program agreed upon with the IMF, as well as to review the \u2018prior steps\u2019 in the form of Supplementary Finance Bill-2023. Briefing the parliamentary committees on finance, Secretary Finance Hamid Yaqoob Sheikh said that the staff-level meeting will be followed by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/items-25-sales-tax-fbr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> IMF Executive Board meeting<\/a> which is expected in the first week of March. He said the staff-level agreement will pave the way to get funds from other international financial institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/chinese-bank-loan-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chinese bank approves USD 700 mn loan for Pakistan: Dar<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is important to note that Pakistan and the IMF are conducting the 9th review of the Extended Fund Facility (EEF) under which Pakistan will get USD 1.1 billion. The IMF has asked the government to implement tax measures to fill the PKR 170 billion revenue shortfall to reach PKR 7.4 trillion revenue target in the current fiscal year(FY).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Finance Ministry of Pakistan has announced that the government is expected to hold a staff-level meeting with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the last week of February, news sources reported on February 21. Read: Govt to raise PKR 170 bn to resume IMF agreement The meeting is expected to discuss the progress made by Pakistan in implementing the economic reform program agreed upon with the IMF, as well as to review the \u2018prior steps\u2019 in the form of Supplementary Finance Bill-2023. Briefing the parliamentary committees on finance, Secretary Finance Hamid Yaqoob Sheikh said that the staff-level meeting will be followed by the IMF Executive Board meeting which is expected in the first week of March. He said the staff-level agreement will pave the way to get funds from other international financial institutions. Read: Chinese bank approves USD 700 mn loan for Pakistan: Dar It is important to note that Pakistan and the IMF are conducting the 9th review of the Extended Fund Facility (EEF) under which Pakistan will get USD 1.1 billion. The IMF has asked the government to implement tax measures to fill the PKR 170 billion revenue shortfall to reach PKR 7.4 trillion revenue target&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":87304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[56485,53221],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-imf-staff-level-meet-2","9":"tag-moodys-terms-pakistan-imf-staff-level-agreement-credit-positive","10":"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>Govt-IMF staff-level meeting in last week of Feb- Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The IMF staff-level meeting is expected to discuss the progress made by Pakistan in implementing the economic reform program agreed\" \/>\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\/imf-staff-level-meeting-february.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Govt-IMF staff-level meeting in last week of Feb- Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The IMF staff-level meeting is expected to discuss the progress made by Pakistan in implementing the economic reform program agreed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imf-staff-level-meeting-february.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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