{"id":424,"date":"2026-05-10T06:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2026-05-10T06:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T06:50:04","slug":"pakistan-to-issue-first-panda-bond-next-week-finance-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to issue first &#8216;Panda bond&#8217; next week, finance minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan is expected to access Chinese capital markets for \u200bthe first time through a yuan-denominated bond \u200cnext week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40419871\/capital-markets-key-as-pakistan-bets-on-domestic-funding-aurangzeb\">Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb<\/a> said on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod willing, next week you will hear good news that \u200bfor the first time, we will be \u200baccessing Chinese capital markets through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40418643\/issuance-of-panda-bond-in-final-stages-says-aurangzeb\">Panda bond<\/a>,\u201d \u2060he said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>The $250 million \u200bissue, the first of a planned $1 billion programme, \u200bwill be backed by the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40419999\"> Asian Development Bank<\/a> and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Aurangzeb said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40420413\/safa-conference-pakistan-positioned-as-strong-amp-sustainable-economy-dar\">Pakistan\u2019s economy<\/a> was showing \u200bsigns of recovery, including rising exports and \u200bremittances, despite the war in Iran and closure of the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40420375\/uk-sending-warship-to-middle-east-ahead-of-hormuz-mission\">Strait \u2060of Hormuz<\/a> placing massive strain on the country, which relies heavily on imported fuel and gas.<\/p>\n<p>The finance minister\u2019s comments follow the release of about $1.32 \u200bbillion in \u200bfresh funding by \u2060the International Monetary Fund from two loan disbursements under two ongoing programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan \u200bwas weighing Eurobonds from other countries and \u200bcommercial \u2060debt to replace a $3.5 billion facility from the United Arab Emirates and manage its foreign reserves \u2060until \u200bSaudi Arabia provided $3 billion in \u200badditional support to bridge the multi-billion-dollar gap in its finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan is expected to access Chinese capital markets for \u200bthe first time through a yuan-denominated bond \u200cnext week, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said on Saturday. \u201cGod willing, next week you will hear good news that \u200bfor the first time, we will be \u200baccessing Chinese capital markets through Panda bond,\u201d \u2060he said at a press conference. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}