The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has intensified its oversight of Pakistan’s beleaguered economy, imposing 11 new structural conditions on the nation’s ongoing $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF) bailout programme. These fresh directives, revealed in the IMF’s staff-level report released on Thursday, elevate the total number of compliance requirements to a staggering 64 within an 18-month span, signalling the Fund’s determination to enforce deep, systemic changes before further tranches of the loan are released.

The new conditions pivot away from merely fiscal adjustments and dive directly into addressing long-standing governance flaws, entrenched corruption risks, and chronic elite capture within key economic sectors. This rigorous scrutiny stems from the IMF’s recent Governan

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