Prospects for Pakistan to end-2019

Subject

Prospects for Pakistan to end-2019.

Significance

Key challenges for Pakistan in the second half of this year include finalising its latest loan programme with the IMF and extricating itself from the intergovernmental Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ‘grey list’. While the IMF bailout will require consent from Fund executives in Washington, Islamabad will need to convince the FATF that it has taken steps to crack down on terrorist financing.