Ministry of Finance report has revealed that the government has received record Rs 60,800 billion debt during the last 9 years, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
According to the report, the government debt increased by Rs 31,200 billion in the last 3 years alone. The debt increased by Rs 24,900 billion from June 2018 to June 2022. According to Ministry of Finance, the total government debt as of June 2025 was Rs 80,500 billion. In this, local government debt was Rs 54,500 billion, while foreign debt was Rs 26,000 billion.
The report, as of June 2016, the total government debt was Rs 19,700 billion. In this, local debt was Rs 13,600 billion, while foreign government debt was Rs 6,100 billion. In the report, from 2017 to 2020 the government debt was as follows; as of June 2017, the total government debt was Rs 21,400 billion, by June 2018, the government debt had increased to Rs 24,900 billion, by June 2019, the total government debt was Rs 32,700 billion, by June 2020, the government debt was recorded at Rs 36,400 billion.
According to the report, the government debt increase from 2021 to 2024 is as follows the debt had increased to Rs 39,900 billion by June 2021, the debt was Rs 49,200 billion by June 2022, the debt was Rs 62,900 billion by June 2023 and the government debt had increased to Rs 71,200 billion by June 2024.
Reporter: Waqas Azeem