Pakistan’s gold is going nowhere for now

The SBP has rejected unsubstantiated claims that they were about to pledge their gold reserves, but is that even an option?

There was, a few weeks ago, a rumour making the rounds that Pakistan had pledged its gold reserves. For those that do not know what that means, it is when a government is in such a deep crisis that it promises its gold reserves as collateral in exchange for foreign currency when a country’s coffers are entirely depleted.

 

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Ariba Shahid
Ariba Shahid
The author is a business journalist at Profit. She can be reached at [email protected] or at twitter.com/AribaShahid

5 COMMENTS

  1. SBP should show the gold to public. It is my claim that SBP doesn’t have any gold in custody. It is pledged sever.decades.ago to USA. And USA will never give it back even if SBP claims release.

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