{"id":35475,"date":"2026-01-11T00:04:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35475"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:04:21","slug":"pakistan-to-exit-imf-programme-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=35475","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Pakistan to exit IMF programme this year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, Chairman of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Youth Programme (PMYP), announced that Pakistan will exit the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme by June next year.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a diaspora gathering in London on Saturday, he said Pakistan was steadily moving towards economic self-reliance and would no longer require IMF support by mid-2026.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the country&#8217;s recent economic direction had restored confidence among investors and overseas Pakistanis. Referring to past economic challenges, Mashhood said IMF-linked policies imposed after 2018 had slowed growth, but the current government had placed the economy back on the path of recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The PMYP chairman highlighted the sharp rise in workers&#8217; remittances as a sign of renewed confidence, noting that overseas Pakistanis sent billions of dollars home in 2025, providing a significant boost to the country&#8217;s economy. The London statement echoed his earlier remarks in August 2025, when he had said Pakistan was &#8220;on the path to progress and would soon exit the IMF programme,&#8221; stressing that fiscal discipline and structural reforms were beginning to deliver tangible results. Mashhood said a sustained focus on exports, productivity and youth-led entrepreneurship would help build foreign exchange reserves and finally end Pakistan&#8217;s long-standing dependence on IMF bailout programmes.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, Chairman of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Youth Programme (PMYP), announced that Pakistan will exit the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme by June next year. Addressing a diaspora gathering in London on Saturday, he said Pakistan was steadily moving towards economic self-reliance and would no longer require IMF support by mid-2026. He added [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}