IMF-Pakistan negotiations are scheduled for the 25th, with structural benchmarks still awaited.

Negotiations between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are set to start on September 25, according to sources, because a number of fundamental requirements under the IMF program have not yet been met.

A crucial IMF criterion remains unfulfilled as the Ministry of Finance certified that the necessary policy action plan for the privatization of power distribution businesses has not yet been completed.

Officials claim that during the most recent economic review, five of the twenty-two structural standards were not met. The Corruption and Governance Diagnostic Assessment Report is one of them that has not yet been published. The State-Owned Enterprises Act still has to be amended, and the IMF is also working on updating the Sovereign Wealth Funds legislation.