{"id":24003,"date":"2026-10-05T16:05:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24003"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:05:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:05:46","slug":"pakistans-public-debt-reaches-rs86-7-trillion-after-340-increase-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24003","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Public Debt Reaches Rs86.7 Trillion After 340% Increase Over a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan\u2019s public debt increased by 340% over ten years, reaching Rs86.7 trillion by June 2026, according to a report by the federal Ministry of Finance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report recorded an increase of Rs67 trillion in public debt during the decade. Total public debt stood at Rs19.7 trillion in June 2016 before rising to Rs86.7 trillion by June 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry\u2019s figures, the June 2026 total comprised Rs59.4 trillion in domestic debt and Rs27.3 trillion in external public debt.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the Rs19.7 trillion total recorded in June 2016 included Rs13.6 trillion in domestic debt and Rs6.1 trillion in external public debt.<\/p>\n<p>The report also provided annual figures, showing that total public debt reached Rs21.4 trillion by June 2017 and increased to Rs24.9 trillion by June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Public debt subsequently rose to Rs32.7 trillion in June 2019 and Rs36.4 trillion by June 2020. According to the Ministry of Finance, it increased further to Rs39.9 trillion by June 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s public debt increased by 340% over ten years, reaching Rs86.7 trillion by June 2026, according to a report by the federal Ministry of Finance. The report recorded an increase of Rs67 trillion in public debt during the decade. Total public debt stood at Rs19.7 trillion in June 2016 before rising to Rs86.7 trillion by [&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":[41,47,46],"tags":[13778,6885,6610,144,4665,13777],"class_list":["post-24003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news","category-latest","tag-debt-increase","tag-domestic-debt","tag-external-debt","tag-ministry-of-finance","tag-pakistan-economy","tag-public-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003","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=24003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24004,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions\/24004"}],"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=24003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}