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Include planning ministry in IMF negotiations

Global Published 24 September 2026, 05:47 · archived 24 Sep 2026

EDITORIAL: International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme is a whole of the government programme engaging federal and provincial institutions as well as the Planning Commission/Ministry of Planning, so maintained a press release issued a day after Ahsan Iqbal, Minister of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, stated that he had written a letter to the Prime Minister requesting a seat at the table during negotiations with the IMF as the “broader discussions on the economy including growth, inflation, poverty and others are the domain of our ministry.” During its quarterly programme review...

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