ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry estimated on Tuesday that the incumbent Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government will pay $55 billion in foreign debt payments during its five-year tenure that ends in 2023.
The minister drew a comparison with $27 billion paid during the preceding Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in its five-year tenure in a tweet, adding that $12.27 billion would be paid during the current fiscal year, with another $12.5 billion in FY23.