ISLAMABAD: Not long after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved $3 billion for Pakistan, the World Bank (WB), too, on Thursday approved $100 million in loan for the Punjab Population Planning programme. Under the programme, which will get underway in all districts of the province, the capacity of lady health workers will be enhanced. The bank has said that the programme is of great utility for controlling population growth in the province. A few hours before, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, while talking to media in Islamabad, had said that out of total $3 billion that the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Executive Board had approved for Pakistan in loan under the staff level agreement, the country had received the first tranche of $1.2 billion. DNA
