{
  "id": 19450292,
  "title": "More debt, less development? Pakistan spends just 10% of annual budget",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/more-debt-less-development-pakistan-spends-just-10-of-annual-budget",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-11T04:33:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/more-debt-less-development-pakistan-spends-just-10-of-annual-budget/articleshow/135725708.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Pakistan spent just 10.4% of its annual development budget in the first four months of the fiscal year, despite recording a 0.8% budget surplus in the first quarter. The slow spending comes as public projects face delays and the country's external debt nearly doubles to $135.1 billion in 2025 from $68.67 billion in 2015, according to a World Bank report cited by Dawn.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}