Pakistan signs $475m flood loan deal with ADB

[FOOLS_NIGHTMARE]

• ADB loan was signed at rate of 1% for a period of 40 years.
• Pakistan struggling to meet its external financing obligations.
• Minister Ayaz Sadiq rules out possibility of Pakistan's default.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has signed a $475 million loan agreement for flood relief with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the country's economic affairs minister said on Thursday, taking the total for the year to $2.7 billion with the agency.

Floods caused by abnormal monsoon rains and a melting glacier submerged huge swathes of the country earlier this year and killed nearly 1,700 people, the majority of them children and women.

Minister Ayaz Sadiq said the concessionary ADB loan was signed at the rate of 1% for a period of 40 years.

"The impression that's being spread is that God forbid, Pakistan is going to be bankrupt, or it is in financial crisis. There is nothing like that," Sadiq said in a recorded message.

"Had there been such a situation, the ADB wouldn't have signed these loans with us today."

Pakistan is struggling to meet its external financing obligations in the face of low foreign exchange reserves that are barely enough to cover a month of imports. It is also beset by decades-high inflation.

The country has been trying to approach allies to seek financial support, and a ninth review of the International Monetary Fund for a 2019 bailout programme has been pending since September.

Pakistan signs $475m flood loan deal with ADB

Minister Ayaz Sadiq says concessionary ADB loan was signed at rate of 1% for a period of 40 years

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[Flight of falcon]

Let me guess your daddy needs money for his hair transplant and mommy needs some special surgeries in London ?

 

[alphapak]

This money will be siphoned off to London to pay for Mota Nawaja's platelets and Maryams
vaginaplasty.

 

[HAIDER]

another loan .....

 

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"The impression that's being spread is that God forbid, Pakistan is going to be bankrupt, or it is in financial crisis. There is nothing like that," Sadiq said in a recorded message.

Why are the vegetables sitting in containers in the dock then?

Vegetable containers stuck at port | The Express Tribune

Containers held up due to unavailability of foreign exchange

tribune.com.pk

This is especially dumb as vegetables are perishable and turn to compost if not unloaded promptly.

 

[maithil]

Deal is such a nice word. Loan on the other hand...

 

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another loan .....

Things are bad. Aid money is running out.

UN says funds for flood-hit Pakistan to run out in weeks​

UN says funds for flood-hit Pakistan to run out in weeks

The UN’s World Food Programme will run out of funds for Pakistan on January 15, said the director of its mission in the country Chris Kaye.

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