Pakistan’s liquid foreign reserves stood at $ 22,587.4 million as of August 21, 2026.
According to the data shared by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Thursday, central bank’s foreign reserves stood at $ 17,098.5 million. Net foreign reserves held by the commercial banks stood at $ 5,488.9 million as of August 21, 2026.
During the week ending August 21, 2026, SBP’s foreign reserves increased by $ 17 million to $ 17,098.5 million. Last week, SBP’s foreign reserves increased by $ 25 million to $ 17,081.9 million. Before that week, SBP’s foreign reserves increased by $14 million to $17,057 million.
Before that week, SBP’s foreign reserves increased by $ 13 million to $ 17,043 million. Before that week, SBP’s foreign reserves decreased by $ 229 million to $ 17,029.9 million. The decline in SBP’s foreign reserves was due to external debt repayments.
During the week ending July 17, 2026, SBP’s foreign reserves increased by $ 33 million to $ 17,258.6 million.
The SBP reported that its reserves fell by $1.245 billion during that week, primarily because of external debt repayments.
The decline followed a sharp increase in the previous week, when the central bank’s reserves rose by $1.944 billion to $18.471 billion due to the receipt of government-related inflows.
Earlier, SBP reserves had increased by $611 million during the week ending June 24, reaching $16.527 billion. The rise was mainly attributed to inflows from multilateral institutions.
This followed a $1.305 billion decline in the preceding week, which was also linked to external debt repayments.
The central bank’s reserves had previously posted a series of modest gains, rising by $6 million to $17.221 billion, followed by increases of $25 million and $43 million in successive weeks. Another weekly rise of $66 million had taken reserves to $17.147 billion.
The largest recent increase came during the week ending May 15, when SBP reserves climbed by $1.214 billion to $17.081 billion.
The increase was mainly supported by funds received from the International Monetary Fund under the Extended Fund Facility and Resilience and Sustainability Facility, along with proceeds from Panda bond issuance, although some external debt repayments were also made during the period.
In earlier weeks, SBP reserves recorded smaller increases of $17 million, $23 million and $730 million. The $730 million rise was primarily driven by proceeds from Pakistan’s Eurobond issuance.
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