Islamabad:
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Griselina Georjeeva will meet three weeks before the second installment of a $ 1 billion debt in Dubai.
Government and diplomatic sources told The Express Tribune that it would be sidelined at the World Government Summit in Dubai.
Pakistan demanded the meeting.
The purpose of the meeting between the IMF MD and the Prime Minister is not immediately known.
The International Monetary Fund and the Ministry of Finance have made no comments on the meeting between the Prime Minister and the Managing Director.
The government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif is taking place at the time of pressure to reduce the transaction tax on layers from the real estate sector.
Shahbaz Sharif adjourned the meeting twice last week, in which he had to decide to reduce the income tax rate of the real estate sector and cancel the federal excise duty.
The Prime Minister had formed the Cabinet Minister -led Task Committee for recommendations for the real estate sector.
Pakistan’s wage sector inflation, rising prices and high illegal taxes, but Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif does not form a task committee to reduce the suffering of the poor salary class.
Teachers are on the streets against the government’s decision to revoke the 25 % income tax exemption and restore the balance from July 2022.
According to government sources, Finance Minister Mohammed Aurangzeb said that Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund are planning to launch the first review negotiations in Islamabad from March 3 to March 14.
The government is confident that the success of negotiations after the Agricultural Income Tax Act in Sindhu and the prices of gas for domestic power plants.
There are also issues relating to amendments to the Pakistan Selvin Fund Act, but the entire Pakistani authorities are confident of the success of the negotiations. An International Monetary Fund’s work on governance and corruption is already here.
Sources said that after completing the assessment work on February 14, another bill -sized follow -up -up -to -the -up meeting may be visited and the recommendations may be finalized.
The Pakistan Assessment Report will be released in July, and its recommendations may already include additional conditions in 40 rules. The government has to implement these conditions for $ 7 billion in a period of 3 years.
