Govt retires Rs464bn debt in a week

Mettis Global reported, citing the central bank's weekly estimates, that the government repaid a net Rs463.75 billion in the week to October 09, 2026. With that, the cumulative net repayment for fiscal year 2027 reached Rs2.97 trillion. Nearly all of the weekly figure came from budgetary support, with commodity operations at Rs313m and other categories at Rs312m.

Cumulatively this year, budgetary support accounts for Rs2.94 trillion of the total, while commodity operations stand at Rs28.63bn and other categories at Rs0.78bn. The State Bank of Pakistan and scheduled banks are the two largest sources of financing for budgetary support. So far this fiscal year the government has paid back a net Rs288.3bn to the central bank and a net Rs2.66tr to scheduled banks.

By tier, the Federal Government retired Rs779.87bn from the central bank, while the Provincial Government borrowed Rs526.18bn, and the AJK and GB governments retired Rs20.02bn and Rs14.59bn respectively. In the scheduled bank category, the Federal Government retired Rs2.72tr and the Provincial Government borrowed Rs60.57bn.