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ISLAMABAD: Pakistani authorities are undergoing a “very tough” second quarterly review with visiting staff of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the country’s fiscal deficit breached 2.3 per cent of GDP in the first half of 2019-20 despite a tight control on the government’s expenditure. Informed sources told Dawn on Wednesday that fiscal deficit in July-December 2019 amounted to about Rs995 billion …

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