LAHORE – Pakistan will pay around $9.3 billion as debt and interest paymentin fiscal year 2018-19, reports revealed on Friday.

Government has paid $7.4 billion as debt and interest payment to bothdomestic and foreign lenders in FY 2017-18 and also paid $5.2 billion asdebt payment in FY 2017-18.

According to details, interest payments amounts to $2.2 billion in FY2017-18.

In FY 2017 debt and interest payment amounted to $8.14 billion.