Pakistan’s Foreign Debts Will Burden Generations to Come: Prime Minister

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sherif, then-leader of the opposition, gestures as he speaks to the media at the Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad on April 7, 2022. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

Pakistan’s foreign debt has reached a level that even the future generations will not be able to pay off, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on May 28.

“Imran Khan’s government took such hefty amount of loans that our generations might not be able to pay them,” Sharif said in a public address, referring to his predecessor, Pakistan-based The News reported.