{"id":683,"date":"2026-04-24T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/?p=683"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:47:44","slug":"pakistan-repays-3-45bn-to-uae-central-bank-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/pakistan-repays-3-45bn-to-uae-central-bank-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan repays $3.45bn to UAE, central bank confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>KARACHI:\u00a0<\/strong>Pakistan repaid the $3.45 billion deposit to the United Arab Emirates, the State Bank of Pakistan confirmed on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The central bank said the $1bn deposit was repaid to the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development on April 23 and $2.45bn was repaid to the UAE \u201clast week\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis completes the repayment of total deposits of $3.45 billion to UAE,\u201d said the SBP in a post on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior official said earlier this month that Pakis\u00adtan had decided to return $3.5 billion in debt to the UAE before the end of this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official described the move as a cost the country was willing to bear to uphold \u201cnational dignity\u201d, even as it is set to significantly draw down foreign exch\u00adange reserves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These funds were part of external financing support extended by the UAE in 2019 to help stabilise Pakistan\u2019s balance of payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March, Islamabad failed to secure an agreement with the UAE to roll over the $3.5bn facility, marking the first such failure in seven years and raising concerns about near-term financing gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate post on X, a day earlier, the SBP said foreign reserves held by the country stood at $20.63bn as of April 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the current month, Pakistan received a $3bn deposit from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The deposit came in two tranches, with the second tranche of $1bn received on April 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s foreign exchange position, though under pressure, remains part of a broader stabilisation effort under IMF-supported reforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts say external financing risks remain a key vulnerability, particularly amid volatile energy prices and constrained global capital markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI:\u00a0Pakistan repaid the $3.45 billion deposit to the United Arab Emirates, the State Bank of Pakistan confirmed on Friday. The central bank said the $1bn deposit was repaid to the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development on April 23 and $2.45bn was repaid to the UAE \u201clast week\u201d. \u201cThis completes the repayment of total deposits of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[27],"class_list":{"0":"post-683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-finance","8":"category-latest","9":"category-pakisstan"},"authors":[{"term_id":27,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"afnanwasif","display_name":"Web Desk","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cbec8328241e98fefcd32e00f20f7a6b502086a0b95d395db4b1565c51681914?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomag.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}