{"id":490464,"date":"2022-05-10T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T03:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=490464"},"modified":"2022-05-10T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T04:03:56","slug":"pak-leader-claims-imf-delaying-meeting-seeking-hike-in-petroleum-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pak-leader-claims-imf-delaying-meeting-seeking-hike-in-petroleum-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak leader claims IMF delaying meeting, seeking hike in petroleum prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson on finance Muzzammil Aslam, the IMF has deferred a meeting with Pakistan authorities until May 18 as they are seeking a hike in petrol and diesel prices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If prices are raised, then IMF delegation could meet Pakistani authorities in Doha from May 18,&#8221; he said, adding that the international lender wanted excessive taxes on the common man in the next budget.<\/p>\n<p>Aslam while sharing a news report on Monday claimed that the IMF mission which is scheduled to visit Pakistan on May 10 is delaying the meeting for the release of the USD 1 billion tranches as they want the new government to raise the prices of petrol, diesel and electricity ahead of staff-level talks, reported ARY News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson on finance Muzzammil Aslam, the IMF has deferred a meeting with Pakistan authorities until May 18 as they are seeking a hike in petrol and diesel prices. &#8220;If prices are raised, then IMF delegation could meet Pakistani authorities in Doha from May 18,&#8221; he said, adding that the international lender wanted excessive taxes on the common man in the next budget. Aslam while sharing a news report on Monday claimed that the IMF mission which is scheduled to visit Pakistan on May 10 is delaying the meeting for the release of the USD 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}