{"id":106839,"date":"2026-04-07T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=106839"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:01:48","slug":"pakistan-completes-timely-payment-of-1-3-billion-eurobond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistan-completes-timely-payment-of-1-3-billion-eurobond\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan completes timely payment of $1.3 billion Eurobond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ISLAMABAD: Pakistan made a full and timely repayment of its $1.3 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/pakistan-repays-1-bln-in-eurobonds-ahead-of-imf-bailout\/\">Eurobond<\/a> maturing on April 8, as part of the country\u2019s routine external debt management.<\/p>\n<p>Advisor to the Finance Minister Khurram Shahzad said in a post on social media platform X that the country has also paid coupon dues of $126.125 million on other Eurobond issuances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotal repayments to date have exceeded $1.426 billion. Debt repayments are continuing as usual, reflecting Pakistan\u2019s consistency, discipline, and strong capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khurram Shahzad added that this performance is based on stable external reserves and improved cash flow, ongoing economic stability and resilience, increased investor confidence, and a more sustainable and orderly debt path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe smooth implementation of large external debt payments demonstrates not only capacity but also consistency and strengthens Pakistan\u2019s credibility among global investors and financial institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the British news agency Reuters has reported that Pakistan will repay $3.5 billion in debt to the United Arab Emirates this month, which will put pressure on the country\u2019s reserves.<\/p>\n<p>According to the State Bank, the country\u2019s foreign exchange reserves stood at $16.38 billion on March 27.<\/p>\n<p>The net foreign reserves of commercial banks were recorded at $5.41 billion, taking the country\u2019s total reserves to $21.79 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan made a full and timely repayment of its $1.3 billion Eurobond maturing on April 8, as part of the country\u2019s routine external debt management. Advisor to the Finance Minister Khurram Shahzad said in a post on social media platform X that the country has also paid coupon dues of $126.125 million on other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":106840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39527,138],"class_list":["post-106839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-1-3-billion-eurobond","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106841,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106839\/revisions\/106841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}