{"id":38032,"date":"2013-05-23T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T09:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=38032"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T09:12:14","slug":"good-news-for-pakistan-saudi-to-extend-15-bn-bailout-package-to-pakistan-38032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/good-news-for-pakistan-saudi-to-extend-15-bn-bailout-package-to-pakistan-38032\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Pakistan: Saudi to extend $15 bn bailout package to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pakistan\u2019s key ally Saudi Arabia is expected to extend $ 15-billion bailout package to Pakistan’s highly indebted energy sector to help the nation overcome power crisis.<\/h1>\n

Islamabad, May 23\/Nationalturk – In what could signal return of good days for Pakistan, country\u2019s key ally Saudi Arabia is expected to extend $ 15-billion bailout package to Pakistan’s highly indebted energy sector to help the nation overcome power crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Saudis are taking reasonable interest in helping out the incoming PML-N government led by Nawaz Sharif to overcome power crisis. The country is planning to extend bail-out package for Pakistan\u2019s highly indebted energy sector by supplying crude and furnace oil on deferred payment to enable it to resolve the chronic circular debt issue,\u201d a senior government official was quoted as saying by Pakistan\u2019s newspaper, The Dawn.<\/p>\n

Saudi envoy sought details of oil requirements<\/h2>\n

He said after Nawaz Sharif\u2019s PML-N emerged as the single largest party in May 11 general elections, the Saudi envoy in Islamabad sought a briefing on the country\u2019s oil requirements from the foreign ministry before calling on prime minister-designate Nawaz Sharif in Raiwind, Lahore.<\/p>\n

The official said the Saudi envoy was immediately provided a position paper.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan expects about 100,000 barrels of crude oil and about 15,000 tons of furnace oil per day from Saudi Arabia on deferred payment for three years. The amount involved works out at about $12-15bn. The facility can be utilised to reduce load-shedding in the short term and provide an opportunity in the medium term to restructure the power sector by minimising subsidies, eliminating circular debt, ensuring recovery from the public sector and reducing system losses to bring it to a self-sustainable level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Bail out package can help Nawaz govt to overcome energy crisis<\/h3>\n

The official said bailout package can help Pakistan\u2019s new government to be headed by Nawaz Sharif to \u00a0resolve country\u2019s electricity crisis and develop hydropower projects through a combination of public and private investments and bagasse-based power production by the sugar industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe arrangement for oil supplies on deferred payments could be further discussed during Nawaz Sharif\u2019s first visit to Saudi Arabia soon after assuming the office of prime minister early next month,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pakistan\u2019s total crude oil import is about 400,000 barrels per day and 30,000 tons of furnace oil. Its total oil import bill stands at about $15bn per annum.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe breathing space provided by the likely Saudi package could also be used for renegotiating gas price with Iran for the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline to bring it down to a sustainable level,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n

Under the gas sales and purchase price agreement, any party may seek revision of the rates in view of the cost of alternative import options one year ahead of the first gas flows scheduled to take place in December 2014.<\/p>\n

The newspaper quoting official as saying that Saudi rulers had not taken any interest in the issue earlier because of the chill in their relationship with the PPP government.<\/p>\n

Saudi government had extended a similar special package to Pakistan soon after it conducted nuclear tests in 1998 and faced international economic sanctions.<\/p>\n

Between 1998 and 2002, Pakistan received $3.5 billion (Rs190 billion at the exchange rate at that time) worth of oil from Saudi Arabia on deferred payment, a major part of which was converted into grant.<\/p>\n

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