{"id":27854,"date":"2025-04-23T05:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=27854"},"modified":"2025-04-23T05:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T05:29:08","slug":"finance-minister-meets-ceo-of-saudi-fund-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/?p=27854","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister meets CEO of Saudi Fund for Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250423-WA0006-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250423-WA0006-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250423-WA0006-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250423-WA0006-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250423-WA0006-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250423-WA0006.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington DC : Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, met with H.E. Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Murshid, CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister recalled his visit to Saudi Arabia in February 2025 to attend the Al-Ula Conference on Emerging Markets and his meeting with the Finance Minister of Saudi Arabia during the visit. He briefed on Pakistan\u2019s improving macroeconomic indicators and noted that Moody\u2019s had recently upgraded Pakistan\u2019s credit rating to B- with a stable outlook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appreciated the growing interest in investment projects in Pakistan at both G2G and B2B levels. The Minister requested expedited disbursements under the Saudi Oil Facility and assured the provision of evidence of oil shipments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two sides reviewed the existing portfolio, and the Minister expressed satisfaction over the progress. He also requested financial support from SFD for the N-25 infrastructure project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington DC : Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, met with H.E. Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Murshid, CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), on the sidelines&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[2383,1957],"class_list":["post-27854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-stories","tag-federal-minister-for-finance-pakistan","tag-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia-ksa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854","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=27854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27856,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27854\/revisions\/27856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theasiantelegraph.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}