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      <title>Pakistan not on IMF executive board meeting: sources</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pakistan’s name has not been included on the agenda of the upcoming executive board meeting of the International Monitory Fund as the deadlock remains over the ninth Economic Survey.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Names of Iceland and other countries were included for approval in the meeting, sources told Aaj News on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finance Ministry officials will contact IMF officials virtually as the $6.5 billion loan program with the IMF is ending on June 30, sources said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moreover, Moody’s Investors Service has warned that Pakistan is at an increased risk of a failure to restart its $6.7-billion bailout program.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The program is stalled since November last year, pushing the country closer to a sovereign default.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“There are increasing risks that Pakistan may be unable to complete the IMF programme that expires at the end of June,” Grace Lim, a sovereign analyst with the rating company in Singapore, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Without an IMF programme, Pakistan could default, given its very weak reserves.”&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Pakistan’s name has not been included on the agenda of the upcoming executive board meeting of the International Monitory Fund as the deadlock remains over the ninth Economic Survey.</strong></p>
<p>Names of Iceland and other countries were included for approval in the meeting, sources told Aaj News on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Finance Ministry officials will contact IMF officials virtually as the $6.5 billion loan program with the IMF is ending on June 30, sources said.</p>
<p>Moreover, Moody’s Investors Service has warned that Pakistan is at an increased risk of a failure to restart its $6.7-billion bailout program.</p>
<p>The program is stalled since November last year, pushing the country closer to a sovereign default.</p>
<p>“There are increasing risks that Pakistan may be unable to complete the IMF programme that expires at the end of June,” Grace Lim, a sovereign analyst with the rating company in Singapore, was quoted as saying by Bloomberg on Wednesday.</p>
<p>“Without an IMF programme, Pakistan could default, given its very weak reserves.”</p>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:14:05 +0500</pubDate>
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