{
  "id": 18425187,
  "title": "Pakistan’s external debt nearly doubles in a decade to $135bn: World Bank",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/pakistans-external-debt-nearly-doubles-in-a-decade-to-135bn-world-bank",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-11-06T02:23:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dawn Business",
    "slug": "dawn-business",
    "url": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2042537/pakistans-external-debt-nearly-doubles-in-a-decade-to-135bn-world-bank"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Pakistan's external debt nearly doubled over the past decade, reaching $135.1 billion in 2025, according to the World Bank's International Debt Report 2026. In 2015, the figure was $68.673 billion. The report highlighted that Pakistan's total external debt included $107.076 billion in public and publicly guaranteed debt, $17.58 billion in private non-guaranteed debt, and $10.45 billion in short-term debt. Of the public and publicly guaranteed debt, $56.83 billion was owed to multilateral creditors, $42.43 billion to bilateral creditors, and $7.8 billion to private creditors. China was Pakistan's largest individual creditor, with $22.4 billion outstanding, followed by the World Bank with $19.2 billion and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with $16.83 billion.",
  "summary": "https://www.dawn.com/news/2042485",
  "key_points": [
    "Pakistan's external debt nearly doubled to $135.1 billion in 2025, from $68.673 billion in 2015.",
    "China was Pakistan's largest individual creditor, holding $22.4 billion in outstanding debt."
  ],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}