{"id":21442,"date":"2026-04-15T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21442"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:20:13","slug":"saudi-3-billion-support-expected-next-week-deposit-extension-likely-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=21442","title":{"rendered":"Saudi $3 Billion Support Expected Next Week, Deposit Extension Likely: Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has stated that Pakistan is expected to receive $3 billion in financial support from Saudi Arabia by next week, which will help strengthen the country\u2019s foreign exchange reserves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, the finance minister said that he held detailed discussions with the Saudi finance minister, while a previous meeting on the matter had also taken place in Islamabad last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aurangzeb, the Saudi finance minister confirmed that the $3 billion support will be provided in the form of additional deposits, offering financial stability to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Pakistan made payments of $1.4 billion last week and remains committed to fulfilling all its financial obligations on time to maintain international credibility.<\/p>\n<p>The finance minister further stated that the existing $5 billion deposits may also be extended, with their maturity likely to be increased until 2028 instead of annual rollovers, which would provide further financial relief.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed gratitude to the Saudi leadership, particularly Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Saudi finance minister, for their continued support, reflecting strong bilateral ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has stated that Pakistan is expected to receive $3 billion in financial support from Saudi Arabia by next week, which will help strengthen the country\u2019s foreign exchange reserves. Speaking at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, the finance minister said that he held detailed discussions with the Saudi finance minister, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21443,"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":[11854,11232,6541,2172,4665,434],"class_list":["post-21442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-deposits","tag-financial-support","tag-foreign-reserves","tag-muhammad-aurangzeb","tag-pakistan-economy","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442","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=21442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21444,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21442\/revisions\/21444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}