{"id":23520,"date":"2026-08-31T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23520"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T11:00:53","slug":"pakistans-privatisation-programme-falls-behind-targets-only-two-entities-privatised-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23520","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s privatisation programme falls behind targets, only two entities privatised in two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad: The federal government&#8217;s five-year privatisation programme has fallen significantly behind schedule, with only two state-owned entities privatised despite two years having passed since the programme was launched.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The federal government approved the five-year Privatisation Programme 2024\u20132029 in August 2024, outlining a phased plan to privatise selected state-owned entities.<\/p>\n<p>Under the original plan, the programme was divided into three phases, with a total of 24 entities selected for privatisation.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase targeted the privatisation of 10 entities within one year.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite two years having passed, the government has managed to complete the privatisation of only two of the 10 entities identified under the first phase.<\/p>\n<p>The two entities successfully privatised are First Women Bank and Pakistan International Airlines (PIA).<\/p>\n<p>The failure to meet the first-phase targets has slowed one of the federal government&#8217;s major economic reform initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The privatisation programme is aimed at reducing the financial burden of state-owned enterprises, improving operational efficiency and increasing the role of the private sector in the economy.<\/p>\n<p>However, the completion of only two privatisations against a first-phase target of 10 highlights significant delays in the implementation of the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The federal government&#8217;s five-year privatisation programme has fallen significantly behind schedule, with only two state-owned entities privatised despite two years having passed since the programme was launched. The federal government approved the five-year Privatisation Programme 2024\u20132029 in August 2024, outlining a phased plan to privatise selected state-owned entities. Under the original plan, the programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13724,"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":[5254,335,13500,4665,13498,3342,13501,13499,13502,7924],"class_list":["post-23520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-economic-reforms","tag-federal-government","tag-first-women-bank","tag-pakistan-economy","tag-pakistan-privatisation","tag-pia","tag-privatisation-commission","tag-privatisation-programme","tag-privatisation-programme-2024-2029","tag-state-owned-enterprises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520","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=23520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23521,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23520\/revisions\/23521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}