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The International Monetary Fund has added 11 fresh structural conditions to Pakistan’s ongoing $7 billion Extended Fund Facility (EFF), pushing the total
number of binding obligations to 64 over just 18 months, according to the IMF’s staff-level report for the second review released on Thursday, said a TOI report. The new measures focus heavily on governance reforms and anti-corruption efforts, areas the Fund has long flagged as critical weaknesses in Pakistan’s institutional framework. Key new conditions include:
- Mandatory public disclosure of asset declarations of all high-level federal civil servants on an official government website by December 2026. The IMF states the move is aimed at identifying unexplained wealth and discrepancies between declared income and assets.
- Extension of the same asset-declaration requirement to senior provincial government officials.
- Full access to the declared data to be granted to commercial banks.
- By October 2026, Pakistan must publish a time-bound action plan to address corruption risks in 10 high-risk government departments, based on completed institutional risk assessments. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will coordinate implementation in the most vulnerable agencies.
With the $7 billion programme now in its second year, the mounting list of prior actions, structural benchmarks, and indicative targets, 64 in total, marks one of the most intensive IMF oversight regimes Pakistan has faced in decades.
The next tranche release remains contingent on Pakistan meeting these and other pending benchmarks.
