*ISLAMABAD – PTI candidate for the post of finance minister in the upcominggovernment Asad Umar has given a friendly advice to the US Secretary ofState Mike Pompeo who had objected to the Pakistan bailout package from theIMF.*
*Asad Umar has said that the US should worry about its own Chinese debt andlet us worry about our own.*
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had warned that any potential IMF bailoutfor Pakistan should not provide funds to pay off Chinese lenders.
“One piece of friendly advice to the Americans: we’ll worry about ourChinese debt, but I think they better handle their own Chinese debt first,”said Umar.
He acknowledged that Pakistan does have a serious external debt problem,however, “we don’t have a Chinese debt problem.”