Pakistan's Top Economic Managers to attend WB, IMF Moot
Pakistan Times Business & Commerce Desk

ISLAMABAD: The top Pakistani economic managers led by Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenues, Dr. Salman Shah will visit Washington soon to attend Spring meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Official sources said Wednesday that the Spring Meeting will be held from April 14-15 at Washington.

The high level delegation led by Dr. Salman Shah will consist of Advisor Finance Ministry and Director General Debt Office, Dr.

Ashfaque Hassan Khan, Secretary General Finance Navid Ashan, Secretary Finance Tanvir Ali Agha, Governor State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, they added.

The official sources said that the delegation besides attending the meeting, will meet President of the World Bank Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Managing Director of IMF Mr. Portugal, US officials in the USA treasury and State Department, Head of International Finance Corporation (IFC) Lars Thunell, Chairman EXIM Bank James Lambright and others.

Furthermore, the delegation will also be attending conferences on Pakistan arranged by think-tank in Washington.

The delegation will highlight the prudent structural and economic reforms and investment friendly policies initiated by the government during the past six years.

Some of the members of the delegation will be meeting the senior officials of International rating agencies, such as Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s in New York, they said.●