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No plans to prolong, increase IMF standby deal: Finance minister

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It was reported on Thursday that Finance Minister Dr. Shamshad  Akhtar ruled out the possibility of Pakistan asking the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to extend the duration or scale of the Standby Arrangement (SBA), and that government officials would also  provide advice on materialising the external financing gap following successful review. Officials from the Fund are in talks with Islamabad to reach staff-level agreement under the $3 billion SBA initiative, having arrived  in Pakistan on November 2. This month’s 15th is the last day of these discussions. Leading the IMF and Pakistani teams for these discussions were the minister of finance and Nathan Porter, the mission chief for the lender, who also had individual meetings with each other over the week.

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