State Bank of Pakistan’s foreign reserves increase by $28 million

During the week ending August 29, SBP’s reserves increased by $28 million, reaching $14,302.5 million.

A week earlier, reserves had risen by $18 million to $14,274.3 million. Two weeks before that, they went up by $13 million to $14,256.2 million, and a week earlier they had increased by $11 million to $14,243.2 million. Before that week, however, reserves fell by $72 million to $14,231.9 million.

For the week ending July 25, reserves decreased by $153 million to $14,303.9 million. A week earlier, they had dropped by $69 million to $14,456.6 million.

Two weeks earlier, reserves increased by $23 million to $14,525.6 million, and three weeks back, they jumped by $1,774 million to $14,502.2 million because of official inflows.

Before that, reserves had risen by $3,663 million to $12,727.8 million due to multilateral and commercial loans received by the government.

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On June 20, 2025, reserves fell sharply by $2,657 million to $9,064.5 million because of external debt repayments, mainly commercial borrowings.

A week earlier, reserves had risen by $46 million to $11,721.9 million, two weeks earlier by $167 million to $11,675.6 million, while three weeks earlier they had slipped by $7 million to $11,508.8 million.

On May 23, 2025, reserves increased by $70 million to $11,516 million. A week earlier, they had risen by $1,043 million to $11,446.5 million after Pakistan received the second tranche of SDR 760 million (about $1,023 million) from the IMF under the Extended Fund Facility on May 13, 2025.