Caretaker Finance Minister Dr Shamshad Akhtar has said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) team will arrive in Pakistan on November 2.

“We have effectively implemented the IMF programme for the first quarter. We will tell them that we are on track in the programme. Then we have to leave it to God to help us out,” she said while addressing a news conference in Karachi on Saturday.

The finance minister went on to add that the caretaker government has worked on fast-tracking the implementation of reforms asked by the IMF and different programmes of the World Bank.

“The Federal Board of Revenue has collected higher tax in the first quarter than the IMF target. I always ask the FBR to collect more tax. We have also developed reforms for state-owned enterprises which will be implemented,” she said.

“We are not looking only for IMF programme. We are trying to stabilise the country’s economy,” she added.