ISLAMABAD, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Foreign assistance inflows to Pakistan increased 18.38 percent year on year to 5.86 billion U.S. dollars during the first eight months of the ongoing financial year (July 2025-June 2026), the Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Friday.
The increase was mainly due to program support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the ministry said in a report.
The total inflows during July 2025-Feb. 2026, including loans and grants but excluding 1.2 billion dollars disbursed by the IMF in December, rose from 4.95 billion dollars in the same period last year to 5.86 billion dollars.
In February alone, inflows reached 692 million dollars, compared with 364 million dollars in the same month last year, marking an increase of 90 percent, said the report.
Foreign loan inflows stood at 5.77 billion dollars in the first eight months of FY26, up from 4.8 billion dollars a year earlier, while grants fell 31 percent to 92.3 million dollars.
The ministry said that among multilateral lenders, the World Bank remained the largest contributor, disbursing 1.07 billion dollars, followed by the Asian Development Bank with 663 million dollars and the Islamic Development Bank with 540 million dollars, the report noted. ■