<span style="color: #222222;">The US has communicated its strong views on an IMF bailout package to cash-strapped Pakistan. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Senior State Department official, Alice G Wells said, there was a discussion about the conditionality which the US think would be appropriate for an IMF package to Pakistan. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The development comes amid concerns in the Trump administration that the aid could be utilised to pay off the Chinese debts.<br />'' <br />'' Pakistan last month reached an agreement with the Washington-headquartered International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a 6 billion US dollar bailout package aimed at shoring up its finances and strengthening a slowing economy.<br />'' <br />''<br />''Wells, however, ruled out any effort to block IMF loan to Pakistan until the release of Dr Shakeel Afridi, the Pakistan doctor who is currently in jail on the charges of helping CIA to find Osama bin Laden.</span>
News On AIR | June 19, 2019 7:17 PM
US expresses strong views on IMF loan to Pakistan