How much foreign loan PTI government incurred in FY 2021

Pakistan incurred a foreign debt of $10.195 billion from multiple financingsources during July-April of 2020-21, including $3.246 billion from foreigncommercial banks (32 percent) against the total budgeted external loans of$12.233 billion for the entire fiscal year 2020-21.

The Economic Affairs Division (EAD) data released on Tuesday shows that inApril 2021, the country received $2.782 billion external inflows frommultiple financing sources, including $126.33 million from foreigncommercial banks and $2.5 billion from issuance of bonds.

In the corresponding period (July-April) of the fiscal year 2019-20, theexternal inflows were $7.381 billion, which was around (56 percent) of theannual budgeted amount of $12.958 billion.

The total receipt of $10.195 billion constitutes $9.973 billion in loansand $222.23 million of grants. The government borrowed $3.246 billion fromforeign commercial banks, $2.5 billion from bonds issuance, $502.75 millionin commodity financing, while $1 billion was received as safe deposits fromChina.——————————

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According to the data, the government procured $3.246 billion loans fromforeign commercial banks during July-April 2020-21, including $34.62million from Ajman Bank, $526.33 million from the Standard Chartered Bank(London), including $126.33 million in April, $815.11 million from DubaiBank, $200 million were received from the consortium-led by Suisse AG, UBL,and ABL, $370 million from Emirates NBD, and $1.3 billion from the ICBC,China.

The bilateral and multilateral development partners disbursed $3.449billion during the period under review (July-April) against the budgetaryallocation of $5.811 billion for the fiscal year 2020-21.

Amongst the multilateral development partners, Asian Development Bankprovided $1.256 billion against the budgeted estimates of $1.470 billion,followed by the World Bank’s $960.91 million against the budgetaryallocation of $2.257 billion. While from bilateral sources, France, theUSA, and China provided $38.93 million, $98.07 million, and $147.52million, respectively.