{"id":9416,"date":"2026-02-15T18:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9416"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:35:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:35:52","slug":"pakistan-repays-700-million-china-loan-as-forex-reserves-drop-to-15-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/?p=9416","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Repays $700 Million China Loan as Forex Reserves Drop to $15.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"107\" data-end=\"357\">Islamabad (HRNW) \u2013 Pakistan has repaid $700 million in commercial loans to the China Development Bank (CDB) this week, bringing the State Bank\u2019s foreign exchange reserves down to $15.5 billion, according to official sources.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"643\">The loan had previously been rolled over by the CDB for three years. Government sources further revealed that another $1 billion CDB loan is set to mature in June, and authorities are considering early repayment in hopes of refinancing before the end of the current fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"645\" data-end=\"1052\">The repayment comes ahead of an upcoming IMF mission scheduled to visit Pakistan from February 25 to March 11. The delegation will review negotiations for approval of a $1 billion tranche under the Extended Fund Facility, along with more than $200 million in climate financing. Formal talks with the federal government will begin on March 2, following an initial three-day stay in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1054\" data-end=\"1156\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em>Support independent financial journalism and economic transparency:<\/em><br data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1124\" \/><strong><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/donate-us\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1156\" data-is-last-node=\"\">https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/donate-us\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad (HRNW) \u2013 Pakistan has repaid $700 million in commercial loans to the China Development Bank (CDB) this week, bringing the State Bank\u2019s foreign exchange reserves down to $15.5 billion, according to official sources. The loan had previously been rolled over by the CDB for three years. Government sources further revealed that another $1 billion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9418,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions\/9418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hrnww.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}