KARACHI: Pakistan’s total liquid foreign exchange reserves amounted to $21.7 billion on April 7, up $193.6 million or 0.9 per cent from a week ago, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Thursday.

The SBP’s reserves increased $222m to $16.68bn. During the week, the SBP received multilateral inflows of $317m and made payments of $118m on account of external debt servicing and other official payments.

Net foreign exchange reserves held by commercial banks amounted to $5bn on April 7, slightly down from the preceding week.

Published in Dawn, April 14th, 2017

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