Imran Khan Government Breaks Records in Borrowing Money

Imran Khan Government in Pakistan has broken all previous records in borrowing money merely in the first year of its tenure. According to official data, during the one-year regime of the present government Rs 7,509 billion (Pakistani currency) increases were recorded in the total debt of the country.

As per reports, the State Bank of Pakistan has sent thisborrowing data to the Prime Minister's Office. Between August 2018 and August2019, the government has borrowed Rs 2,804 billion from foreign sources and Rs4,705 billion from domestic sources respectively.

According to the State Bank data, a 1.43 percent surge was noticed in the public debt of Pakistan is merely the first two months of the current fiscal year. The debt of the federal government has reached Rs 32,240 billion that was Rs 24,732 billion in August last year.

Moreover, the report says that the government's tax collection in the first quarter of the current fiscal was Rs 960 billion while the target was Rs 1 trillion.​