{"id":340580,"date":"2023-07-02T07:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T02:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=340580"},"modified":"2023-07-02T07:13:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T02:13:11","slug":"pakistan-will-never-default-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pakistan-will-never-default-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan will never default: Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE<br \/>\nFinance Minister (FM) Ishaq Dar has said Pakistan will never default.<br \/>\n\u201cthis country will never go default. Had  IMF program not been there we were active for Plan-B. The efforts made by Prime Minister (PM) in connection with IMF agreement are appreciable, he said this while addressing a press conference along  with the PM Shebaz Sharif in Governor house Lahore.<br \/>\nHe said certain people inside and outside Pakistan kept on fomenting despair  Pakistan will go default. They too kept on saying that they would not be able to pay one billion dollars. However bond was paid during Shahbaz Sharif tenure of premiership.<br \/>\nNeither we delayed payment of bond  nor we resorted to Paris club. We have made every payment in time.<br \/>\nHe held during previous government tenure, loss was caused to Pakistan economically. Certain people kept on floating misleading rumors of default.<br \/>\nWe will again make Pakistan 24th economy.<br \/>\nWhat PM and government have made promises in budget will be implemented fast.<br \/>\nGiving credit to PM for execution of agreement with IMF, FM said I was avoiding to levy more taxes of Rs 215 billion and curtail expenses to the tune of Rs 85 billion but PM has assured me of his cooperation .<br \/>\nGovernment will take its foreign reserves to  14-15 billion dollars till the completion of its tenure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE Finance Minister (FM) Ishaq Dar has said Pakistan will never default. \u201cthis country will never go default. Had IMF program not been there we were active for Plan-B. The efforts made by Prime Minister (PM) in connection with IMF agreement are appreciable, he said this while addressing a press conference along with the PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3857,1925],"class_list":{"0":"post-340580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news","8":"tag-finance-minister","9":"tag-ishaq-dar"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan will never default: Finance Minister<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/pakistan-will-never-default-finance-minister\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan will never default: Finance Minister\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LAHORE Finance Minister (FM) Ishaq Dar has said Pakistan will never default. \u201cthis country will never go default. 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