Evidence

Pakistan's total external debt and liabilities

G-AID-08 · gap-foreign-aid

This card

US$ 137,558 million (provisional); US$ 136,027 million at 30-Jun-25 — Pakistan's total external debt and liabilities · 31 March 2026State Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan's External Debt and Liabilities - Outstanding · 31 March 2026Source named — not yet verified

Source

State Bank of Pakistan, Pakistan's External Debt and Liabilities - Outstanding — https://archive.sbp.org.pk/ecodata/pakdebt.pdf. Matched to the source page by an automated research pass on 6 Oct 2026; not yet checked by a person..

What it proves

Decades of external borrowing have left a stock of external obligations above US$ 135 billion, a core argument that aid-as-loans has built a debt trap.

external debtdebt trapsbpforeign loansbalance of paymentsimf

Debates this card can serve

Is IMF lending a debt trap or a path to recovery for Pakistan?#1 · asked in 13 years Is Pakistan's rising public debt economic necessity or fiscal mismanagement?#40 · asked in 7 years Is Pakistan's chronic balance of payments deficit structural or a result of policy?#212 · asked in 3 years