{"id":107909,"date":"2026-04-16T10:46:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=107909"},"modified":"2026-04-16T10:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:46:56","slug":"state-bank-receives-2-billion-from-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/state-bank-receives-2-billion-from-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"State Bank receives $2 billion from Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A big economic news has come to Pakistan. The<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/state-bank-of-pakistan-directs-jazzcash-users-to-complete-biometric-verification\/\"> State Bank of Pakistan<\/a> has received $2 billion from the Ministry of Finance of Saudi Arabia with a value date of April 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>This amount is part of the total new financial assistance of $3 billion approved by Saudi Arabia, the remaining amount of which is also expected to be received soon.<\/p>\n<p>This important development came during the current visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman held a two-hour-long important meeting, in which the changing situation in the region and matters of mutual interest were discussed in detail.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing complete solidarity with Saudi Arabia in the context of recent regional tensions, the Prime Minister said that the Pakistani people stand shoulder to shoulder with their Saudi brothers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, these additional deposits of $3 billion are not part of the previous annual \u2018rollover\u2019 arrangement, but have been extended for a long period. This move will provide a major boost to Pakistan&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves and there is a strong hope that the reserves will reach $18 billion by the end of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: A big economic news has come to Pakistan. The State Bank of Pakistan has received $2 billion from the Ministry of Finance of Saudi Arabia with a value date of April 15, 2026. This amount is part of the total new financial assistance of $3 billion approved by Saudi Arabia, the remaining amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":103993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,9,2],"tags":[40134],"class_list":["post-107909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-state-bank-receives-2-billion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107909","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=107909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107910,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107909\/revisions\/107910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}