{"id":23019,"date":"2026-07-23T13:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23019"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:02:36","slug":"pakistan-seeks-10-billion-exchange-support-facility-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23019","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Seeks $10 Billion Exchange Support Facility from the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan has requested a $10 billion Exchange Stabilization Support Facility from the United States, although Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Finance has not officially confirmed the request.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb met US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington, where the two discussed strengthening Pakistan&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves, improving its sovereign credit profile, expanding economic cooperation, increasing US investment and advancing strategic projects.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Aurangzeb also highlighted the impact of recent regional developments on Pakistan&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Reuters reported that Pakistan has formally requested a bilateral $10 billion Exchange Stabilization Support Facility from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Pakistan submitted a request for a five-year financial facility to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. If approved, the package could strengthen Pakistan&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves, ease pressure on the Pakistani rupee and reduce reliance on multilateral lenders.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters said this is the first time Pakistan has sought such a facility from the United States, and approval could provide significant support to the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that Pakistan hopes to deepen economic cooperation with Washington following its reported diplomatic role during the Iran crisis and efforts to facilitate dialogue between Tehran and Washington.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Finance has not confirmed that such a request has been made, while the US Treasury Department declined to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has requested a $10 billion Exchange Stabilization Support Facility from the United States, although Pakistan&#8217;s Ministry of Finance has not officially confirmed the request. Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb met US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington, where the two discussed strengthening Pakistan&#8217;s foreign exchange reserves, improving its sovereign credit profile, expanding economic cooperation, increasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23020,"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":[270,13204,9349,2172,62,13124,11904,2493],"class_list":["post-23019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-economy","tag-exchange-support-facility","tag-foreign-exchange-reserves","tag-muhammad-aurangzeb","tag-pakistan","tag-reuters","tag-scott-bessent","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019","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=23019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23021,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23019\/revisions\/23021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}