{"id":21386,"date":"2026-04-14T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21386"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:41:09","slug":"saudi-arabia-announces-3-billion-deposit-support-for-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21386","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Announces $3 Billion Deposit Support for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced a $3 billion deposit for Pakistan, a move seen as a strong reflection of the close bilateral ties and longstanding brotherly relations between the two countries, and a significant boost for Pakistan\u2019s economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the Saudi leadership recently sent its finance minister to Pakistan, who assured the Pakistani leadership that Saudi Arabia would fill the foreign exchange gap created by the withdrawal of approximately $3 billion by another Gulf country, helping maintain financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>Sources indicate that Saudi Arabia will place a deposit of the same amount in the State Bank of Pakistan, which will support the country\u2019s foreign exchange reserves, while officials have described the move as \u201cexceptional and special,\u201d reflecting deep strategic trust between the two nations.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that Saudi Arabia already holds deposits of around $5 billion in the State Bank, and Pakistan\u2019s civil and military leadership has expressed gratitude to the Saudi Crown Prince for this timely support, terming it a sign of strengthening ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has announced a $3 billion deposit for Pakistan, a move seen as a strong reflection of the close bilateral ties and longstanding brotherly relations between the two countries, and a significant boost for Pakistan\u2019s economy. According to reports, the Saudi leadership recently sent its finance minister to Pakistan, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[11828,6541,2914,4665,434,463],"class_list":["post-21386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-economic-support","tag-foreign-reserves","tag-mohammed-bin-salman","tag-pakistan-economy","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-state-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21388,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21386\/revisions\/21388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}