{"id":14622,"date":"2023-03-15T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=14622"},"modified":"2023-03-15T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T15:34:32","slug":"us-willing-to-cooperate-with-pakistan-over-imf-deal-us-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/us-willing-to-cooperate-with-pakistan-over-imf-deal-us-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"US willing to cooperate with Pakistan over IMF deal: US envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US willing to cooperate with Pakistan over IMF deal: US envoy. US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome wished for a deal between Pakistan and the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/Home\"> International Monetary Fund<\/a> (IMF) assuring Washington&#8217;s willingness to support the country in its efforts to resume a stalled $6.5 billion bailout programme.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Blome also indicated that the IMF bailout package for Islamabad will take its final shape in a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is ready to cooperate with Pakistan to help on the issue,\u201d Blome said, while speaking to journalists at an event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy also expressed Washington&#8217;s willingness to help Islamabad with the ongoing challenge of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/rupee-tumbles-by-nearly-rs19-against-dollar-in-interbank-amid-imf-delays.html\">Rupee tumbles by nearly Rs19 against dollar in interbank amid IMF delays<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Blome, who has been visiting Pakistan&#8217;s important cities recently for meetings with groups belonging to different walks of life, said there had been significant progress in diplomatic relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The IMF and Islamabad have been in talks over a stalled bailout package since late last year, with the country seeking a $1.1bn tranche to address its worsening balance of payments crisis that would also pave the way for friendly affluent capitals to provide assistance to overcome ongoing financial complexities.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and the IMF are engaged in negotiations to reach a mutually agreeable package that would help the cash-strapped nation come out of the ongoing economic turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, last week, said Pakistan would strike a staff-level agreement (SLA) with the IMF in a few days, as the government remained committed to completing the loan programme signed in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>After failing to convince the lender, Dar had reportedly contacted the US envoy earlier this week in order to get &#8220;lenient treatment&#8221; from the Fund which has been persistent with its demands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US willing to cooperate with Pakistan over IMF deal: US envoy. US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome wished for a deal between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) assuring Washington&#8217;s willingness to support the country in its efforts to resume a stalled $6.5 billion bailout programme. Ambassador Blome also indicated that the IMF bailout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[1247,5423,636,160,103,138],"class_list":["post-14622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-latest-news","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-ishaq-dar","tag-united-states","tag-imf","tag-imran-khan","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}