Pakistan’s IMF Loan at Risk After Fuel Prices Left Unchanged

Pakistan’s new government has kept fuel prices unchanged that may continue to put the nation’s critical $6 billion loan program lifeline at risk.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s administration left gasoline prices at 149.86 rupees a liter and diesel at 144.15 rupees a liter, the finance ministry said in a statement. The prime minister took the decision to “provide relief to the common man,” said the statement.