By: Radhakrishna N S
Pakistan has extended talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the two sides failed to agree on the terms of a bailout package, a finance ministry official said on Tuesday (20), with a final deal now expected by mid-January. Pakistan is negotiating its second IMF bailout since 2013 and talks had been expected to conclude this month during a visit by an IMF delegation to Islamabad. Finance ministry spokesman Noor Ahmed said there were still some issues to be ironed out. “We have covered a lot of areas in terms of convergence of views,” Ahmed told Reuters. “But there…
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