Pakistan 輸入するs 脅すd as forex reserves 攻撃する,衝突する eight-year low

A man walks past a fish market in Rawalpindi. Pakistan's economy is in the doldrums, with soaring inflation, a weak rupee, and dwindling forex reserves

A man walks past a fish market in Rawalpindi. Pakistan's economy is in the doldrums, with 急に上がるing インフレーション, a weak rupee, and dwindling forex reserves

Pakistan's central bank forex reserves have 急落(する),激減(する)d to an eight-year low of $5.6 billion, 提起する/ポーズをとるing a serious challenge for the country in 財政/金融ing 輸入するs.

Coupled with another $5.8 billion held by 商業の banks, the nation has $11.4 billion in reserves -- enough to 支払う/賃金 for just three weeks of 輸入するs, 仲買人s and 経済学者s say.

"This is a very 墓/厳粛/彫る/重大な 状況/情勢. If things get worse, Pakistan will need to have its 貸付金s 再編するd," said Mohammad Sohail, the 長,率いる of 経済的な 監視者 Topline 安全s in Karachi, alluding to a possible default.

Pakistan's economy has 崩壊するd と一緒に a simmering political 危機, with the rupee 急落するing and インフレーション at 10年間s-high levels, but 破滅的な floods and a 全世界の energy 危機 have piled on その上の 圧力 .

The 最新の data from the central bank 解放(する)d 夜通し -- for the week ending December 30 -- show the country has half the foreign 交流 reserves it held a year ago.

Servicing foreign 負債 and 支払う/賃金ing for 決定的な 商品/必需品s such as 薬/医学, food and energy are の中で the 長,指導者 関心s.

Thousands of shipping コンテナs are held up at a Karachi port because banks have been unable to 保証(人) foreign 交流 支払い(額)s.

貨物 含むs perishable foodstuffs and 医療の 器具/備品 価値(がある) tens of millions of dollars.

"A major hospital in Karachi could not carry out 注目する,もくろむ 外科s for a month because of a 欠如(する) of 器具/備品," said Masood Ahmed, chairman of the Healthcare 装置s 協会 of Pakistan.

連続する 政府s have failed to shore up 多国間の or 二国間の/相互の 援助(する) to 会合,会う foreign 支払い(額)s, although a $6 billion International 通貨の 基金 取引,協定 was 再開するd after Pakistan finally met 条件s such as ending 補助金s on 燃料.

But Islamabad has so far only received half the 基金s -- the last 支払い(額) in August -- with a その上の review of the 一括 現在進行中の.

"All hopes are pinned on the 解放(する) of the remaining 量," Sohail said.

Pakistan often looks for 財政上の 救助(する) from 同盟(する)s 含むing 中国 and Saudi Arabia, but 分析家s say the two countries are 持つ/拘留するing off until Pakistan gets the 国際通貨基金 green light.

Pakistan's 総理大臣 Shehbaz Sharif spoke with both his Chinese 相当するもの and the 国際通貨基金 managing director on Thursday.

Shehbaz said Friday the Chinese 首相 知らせるd him that Beijing had told the 国際通貨基金 that 中国 stands with Islamabad in this difficult 状況/情勢.

On Friday the leader of Pak istan's powerful 軍の was in the Saudi 資本/首都 where he was 報道によれば 押し進めるing for 財政上の 救済.

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