{"id":104398,"date":"2026-10-16T07:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=104398"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:30:07","slug":"aurangzeb-vows-to-complete-imf-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/aurangzeb-vows-to-complete-imf-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurangzeb vows to complete IMF programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK<br \/>\nFinance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb participated in the Bank of America Small Talks Symposium on the sidelines of the World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand today.<br \/>\nThe Finance Minister highlighted Pakistan\u2019s renewed international markets access and efforts to replace costly, short-term debt with longer-maturity financing.<br \/>\nHe outlined improving external indicators, stronger foreign exchange reserves and positive net international reserves under the IMF definition.<br \/>\nMuhammad Aurangzeb reaffirmed Pakistan\u2019s commitment to completing the IMF programme and sustaining policy credibility beyond it.<br \/>\nDiscussions covered tax administration reforms, broadening the tax base, privatization and growing investor interest.<br \/>\nThe Finance Minister emphasized sustainable, export-led growth through tariff reforms, competitive inputs and targeted financing.<br \/>\nHe also outlined measures to manage regional conflict, energy-price pressures and climate shocks while strengthening trade and investment partnerships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb participated in the Bank of America Small Talks Symposium on the sidelines of the World Bank Group-IMF Annual Meetings 2026 in Bangkok, Thailand today. The Finance Minister highlighted Pakistan\u2019s renewed international markets access and efforts to replace costly, short-term debt with longer-maturity financing. He outlined improving external indicators, stronger foreign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104420,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104398\/revisions\/104420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}