https://www.dawn.com/news/1325954/highlighting-an-unexplained-issue-regarding-cpec NASIR JAMAL UPDATED ABOUT 22 HOURS AGO The State Bank of Pakistan’s admission, that it is unaware of the way imports of power generation machinery for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor power projects are being financed, has triggered concerns about its possible implications for the country’s external sector as the current account deficit widens on the back of a rising import bill and falling exports and remittances. In its State of the Economy report for the second quarter of the ongoing financial year to December, the central bank says the gap in import datasets maintained by the SBP and the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has nearly doubled to $3bn from the 10-year average difference of $1.6bn for the first half of any given fiscal year. The report says the gap between the datasets of the SBP and the PBS has consistently been rising since 2015, the year Pakistan signed, with China, the $46b
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