{"id":130884,"date":"2022-01-28T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=130884"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:36:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:36:44","slug":"pakistan-raises-1-billion-through-islamic-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/pakistan-raises-1-billion-through-islamic-bond\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan raises $1 billion through Islamic bond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : Which country has recently(January 2022) raised 1 billion dollar through Islamic bond ?<\/strong><br>a. Pakistan<br>b. Bangladesh<br>c. Iraq<br>d. Afghanistan<br><strong>Ans. a.<br>Related facts &#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pakistan has recently(January 2022) raised a whopping 1 billion dollar loan through the Sukuk bond at a record 7.95% interest rate, the highest cost that the cash-strapped country has agreed to pay in its history on an Islamic bond.<\/li><li>Pakistan has also agreed to pledge a portion of the Lahore-Islamabad Motorway in return for the much-needed loan.<\/li><li>Pakistan had to raise the loan to keep the official foreign exchange reserves at their levels ahead of some major foreign loans\u2019 repayments.<\/li><li>Bond term is 7 year tenor.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/cash-strapped-pakistan-raises-1-billion-through-islamic-bond-at-record-interest-to-keep-forex-reserves-afloat\/article38324001.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/cash-strapped-pakistan-raises-1-billion-through-islamic-bond-at-record-interest-to-keep-forex-reserves-afloat\/article38324001.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : Which country has recently(January 2022) raised 1 billion dollar through Islamic bond ?a. Pakistanb. Bangladeshc. Iraqd. AfghanistanAns. a.Related facts &#8212; Pakistan has recently(January 2022) raised a whopping 1 billion dollar loan through the Sukuk bond at a record 7.95% interest rate, the highest cost that the cash-strapped country has agreed to pay in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2520],"class_list":["post-130884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-current-affairs-international-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130886,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130884\/revisions\/130886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}