The total disbursement of foreign loans during the PTI tenure from Aug 2018 to Dec 2021 was $43.4 billion. The PTI government took a bilateral $3.22 billion loan at the interest rate of 2% while a loan of $3.5 billion was obtained in the form of bonds at an interest rate of 7%.
24NewsHD TV on Friday got details of the loans taken during the PTI regime and their markup rate.
According to the documents, the disbursement of foreign loans from August 2018 to December 2021 was $43.4 billion, at 2 percent interest. A bilateral loan of $3.22 billion was taken, while a loan of $3.5 billion was obtained in the form of bonds at an interest rate of 7 percent.
The PTI government borrowed $14.53 billion through commercial banks with an interest rate of 3 percent. Through multilateral lending, the government secured a loan of $14.45 billion at 1 percent interest rate.
A loan of $1 billion was taken in the form of safe deposit at 1 percent interest rate, a loan of $3 billion was obtained in the form of time deposit at 4 percent interest rate, and a loan of $3.3 billion was obtained at 2.5 percent interest rate, the documents revealed.
Reporter Usman Khan