Govt accumulates another Rs 24 billion loan in a week

News Image

By MG News | September 23, 2019 at 05:57 PM GMT+05:00

0:00

September 23, 2019 (MLN): The government of Pakistan has acquired an additional debt of Rs.24.03 billion during the week ended September 13, 2019, which brings its total net borrowing for ongoing fiscal year 2020 to Rs.108.86 billion. As of prior week, the government had borrowed a net sum of Rs.84.83 billion.

According to the State Bank of Pakistan's weekly estimates in this regard, the government had retired Rs.101.87 billion net, around the same time last year.

The government sector borrowings are divided into three broad categories based on the purpose of loan which are budgetary support, commodity operations and others.

Split three ways between these broad categories, the cumulative net borrowing for budgetary support was Rs.122.99 billion,whereas Rs.13.28 billion were retired off commodity operation and Rs.842.91 million were retired off other miscellaneous operations.

The two biggest source of financing for budgetary support are the State Bank of Pakistan and the Scheduled Banks. This fiscal year, the central bank has been retired a net sum of Rs.774.18 billion by the government, out of which the Federal Government retired Rs.625.19 billion, the Provincial Government retired Rs.136.91 billion, AJK Government retired Rs.9.42 billion, and the GB Government retired Rs.2.66 billion.

On the other hand, the Scheduled Banks have lent out a net total of Rs.897.17 billion out of which the Federal Government borrowed Rs.899.33 billion while the Provincial Government retired Rs.2.15 billion.

Copyright Mettis Link News

Related News

Name Price/Vol %Chg/NChg
KSE100 128,199.43
336.91M
2.05%
2572.11
ALLSHR 79,787.62
1,023.63M
1.53%
1202.91
KSE30 39,105.00
121.90M
2.49%
951.21
KMI30 186,915.61
131.16M
1.10%
2029.11
KMIALLSHR 54,201.88
553.60M
0.81%
438.07
BKTi 33,476.68
51.49M
4.87%
1555.00
OGTi 27,962.58
9.77M
0.68%
188.60
Symbol Bid/Ask High/Low
Name Last High/Low Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES 106,230.00 106,255.00
105,440.00
480.00
0.45%
BRENT CRUDE 67.15 67.29
67.05
0.04
0.06%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY 97.50 97.50
97.50
0.70
0.72%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY 103.80 103.80
103.80
-3.45
-3.22%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN 998.50 998.50
998.50
0.00
0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI 65.47 65.65
65.34
0.02
0.03%
SUGAR #11 WORLD 15.70 16.21
15.55
-0.50
-3.09%

Chart of the Day


Latest News
July 02, 2025 at 06:01 AM GMT+05:00

MG Morning Breeze: Updates to Skim before Market


July 01, 2025 at 10:04 PM GMT+05:00

Pakistan’s trade deficit improves by over 9% in June


July 01, 2025 at 05:24 PM GMT+05:00

Gold price in Pakistan rises Rs6,600 per tola



Top 5 things to watch in this week

Pakistan Stock Movers
Name Last Chg/%Chg
Name Last Chg/%Chg