Still doing this, not possible to change this debts prob. in just 8 years.
It is normal practice to take new loans with extended maturity period say 20 years and pay off the older loans where the payment is due now and loans matured to pay.
And it is normal to take loans on lower interests and pay an older loan with maturity and with higher interest.
But Pakistan problem is much adverse here, it's a combination if many ill planned and executed ideas on economy by the imported PDM and the fin. minister especially.
Dude,
-If you were able to get loans at lower interest rates, you would have done that already
-if you take new loans with extended terms, you would pay more interest (even if interest % is the same BTW
You are barking up a government for not sorting things out with the IMF in 4 months time.
You want to know what happened? I
-mran Khan spent his career badmouthing IMF because it made him look good in the public
-Imran Khan thought how cool it will be if he actually proved he didn't need the IMF by getting loan from China/ UAE etc. He forgot somehwere that IMF actually had money and IMF actually looked at economy in a clinical way
-He did nothing to improve the economy to a level where it could break free of the loans
-He wasted time until the only ones ready to pay him the money was the lender of last - IMF
But by that time PAk Fauj what a disaster he is bringing on and booted him out hoping against hope that a new goverment will get some control over an increasingly catastrophic situation.
Rules of games are changed, now Saudia, UAE, China is not lending, kind of their loan approval is pegged with IMF approval and with a new program and tranche.
Situation is bad and grave, don't know what will the end result, could be a deafult.
Any economist worth his salt would have told you this 2 years ago-
You need 30+ billion in 2 years time, how are you going to get it? You got only 20 billion in commitments, others will peg this IMF- go to IMF
now. Imran Khan should have spent the entire 2021 trying to get 40 billion in place. He should have opened discusisons with all, especially the IMF, renegotiated terms where possible. 2023 is only the last station of a train running fast and unctrolled towards its doom.