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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Pakistan's finance minister on Tuesday, welcoming the country's push to implement economic reforms and prepare for a return to international capital markets,
Pakistan has requested a $10B US exchange stabilisation facility, aiming to ease economic strain and bolster reserves amid IMF programme pressures.
US Treasury's Bessent meets Pakistan's Aurangzeb, hails reforms and push to re-enter capital markets
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent holds talks with Pakistan's Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in Washington DC, expressing support for Islamabad's efforts to build greater economic self-reliance,
Pakistani security forces carried out an intelligence-based ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan​ border, followed by "calibrated strikes."
Geoeconomics, historical precedents, and awareness of the grim dangers of renewed escalation suggest that the relationship between India and Pakistan could gradually improve.
A Pakistani airstrike that hit a drug treatment center in the Afghan capital Kabul in March, killing hundreds of civilians, should be investigated as a possible war crime, human rights organization Amnesty International says.
Pakistan went from fearing Trump's reelection to becoming a key U.S.-Iran peacemaker, though severe domestic instability threatens these gains.
Islamabad is building the enforcement side of its crypto push, standing up a unit to police money laundering even as it licenses exchanges.
A search-and-rescue operation located the wreckage of a cargo plane that disappeared over the Arabian Sea but there was no sign of the flight crew.
Pakistan has been hit hard by the Iran war, given its dependence on Gulf energy imports, remittances and financing support from the region.
Pakistan requests a $10 billion U.S. economic support facility to bolster its economy and enhance access to international capital markets.
