The gross foreign loan disbursements during July-December period of 2021-22 amounted to $9.3 billion while the government received $1.1 billion in foreign loans from the overseas Pakistanis through the Naya Pakistan Certificates
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Javed Mahmood
I am an experienced writer, analyst, and author. My exposure in English journalism spans more than 28 years. In the past, I have been working with daily The Muslim (Lahore Bureau), daily Business Recorder (Lahore/Islamabad Bureaus), Daily Times, Islamabad, daily The Nation (Lahore and Karachi). With daily The Nation, I have served as Resident Editor, Karachi. Since 2009, I have been working as a Freelance Writer/Editor for American organizations.
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