{"id":20827,"date":"2024-11-05T09:26:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T09:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=20827"},"modified":"2024-11-05T09:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T09:26:05","slug":"aiib-envoy-briefed-minister-about-the-banks-portfolio-investment-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=20827","title":{"rendered":"AIIB envoy briefed Minister about the Bank\u2019s portfolio investment in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241105-WA0043-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241105-WA0043-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241105-WA0043-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241105-WA0043-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241105-WA0043.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue meets AIIB delegation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Islamabad : Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a meeting with a delegation of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) led by Mr. Konstantin Limitovskiy, Vice President Client Region and Project Finance Global, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) that called on the Finance Minister at Finance Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, the AIIB team briefed the Minister about the Bank\u2019s portfolio investment in Pakistan, including projects initiated in the hydro power generation, building road and transport sector, urban infrastructure development, building climate resilience and dealing with adverse impacts of pandemics, conflicts and climate-induced flood disasters. The status of ongoing projects and the need for diverting the Bank\u2019s financing from power generation to the transmission and distribution system in view of surplus capacity requiring evacuation were also discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AIIB team said the Bank views Pakistan as an important partner country, and reiterated the Bank\u2019s commitment to supporting Pakistan in meeting its development goals and overcoming climate-related challenges through policy and budgetary support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the AIIB\u2019s team, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb acknowledged the Bank\u2019s support for Pakistan, particularly its funding and technical assistance in dealing with natural disasters and the impacts of climate change and disaster preparedness on a long-term basis. He expressed satisfaction over the progress of AIIB projects in Pakistan and emphasized further efforts to improve the disbursement of ongoing projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister also recalled his meeting with the President of AIIB, Mr. Jin Liqun in Washington DC last month, and mentioned his conversation with Mr. Liqun regarding Pakistan\u2019s desire to diversify its financing base by exploring the possibility of issuing a Panda bond with AIIB anchoring the process through partial guarantee to send out a strong signal to the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue meets AIIB delegation Islamabad : Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb held a meeting with a delegation of Asian Infrastructure Investment&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[1874,103],"class_list":["post-20827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-stories","tag-asian-infrastructure-investment-bank-aiib","tag-federal-minister-for-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20829,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20827\/revisions\/20829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}