Meanwhile, Pakistan is contesting the fiscal gap in achieving the primary deficit. Pakistani authorities have asked the IMF for incorporating flow of reduction under the revised Circular Debt Management Plan (CDMP) and reduced the amount of required additional subsidy of Rs 605 billion again
"In a way, the extended finance facility of seven billion dollars that Pakistan seeks from IMF is no different from our own UDAY 1, UDAY 2 schemes but the context is quite different," the former diplomat told ANI.