Taxes to be imposed through mini-budget prior to IMF deal: Ishaq Dar

Hours after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued a statement on its talks with Pakistan, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said that the parleys with the global lender ended "positively". The government would have to impose Rs170 billion in taxes through a mini-budget to revive the loan program, he added. Addressing the media, he confirmed that the government had received the draft of the Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies (MEFP) from the Washington-based lender.