{"id":23191,"date":"2026-08-03T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23191"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T08:04:09","slug":"private-sector-lending-reached-a-four-year-high-says-khurram-shehzad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23191","title":{"rendered":"Private sector lending reached a four-year high, says Khurram Shehzad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Khurram Shehzad, adviser to the finance minister, has said that private sector lending reached Rs11.38 trillion during the previous fiscal year, marking the highest level recorded in the past four years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Shehzad, lending to the private sector increased by nearly 15 percent during the 2025-26 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the financing was aimed at supporting business activity and expanding production, adding that 89 percent of the new loans were provided to the manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, and agricultural sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Shehzad stated that the manufacturing sector received Rs657 billion in new loans, which he said reflected growth in industrial activity and production capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He added that increased financing for the trade and agricultural sectors had contributed to improvements in production, business activity and private investment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the adviser, rising levels of private sector borrowing indicate growing business confidence and continued economic stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khurram Shehzad, adviser to the finance minister, has said that private sector lending reached Rs11.38 trillion during the previous fiscal year, marking the highest level recorded in the past four years. According to Shehzad, lending to the private sector increased by nearly 15 percent during the 2025-26 fiscal year. He said that the financing was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23192,"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":[5835,270,3226,13282,4611,13283,62,12287],"class_list":["post-23191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-agriculture","tag-economy","tag-finance-ministry","tag-khurram-shehzad","tag-loans","tag-manufacturing","tag-pakistan","tag-private-sector"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191","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=23191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23193,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191\/revisions\/23193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}