IMF bailout option on the table; Pakistan faces mammoth task in arranging $11b for FY19

Slow progress on projects means it fails to benefit from concessionary financing window

Goods' shipments from Pakistan to almost all regions record increase in FY18

These are on eastern route; other projects are way behind deadlines

Already half a dozen offices are working; aim is to make better projections

Failure to make accurate forecasts puts question mark over capability of both institutions

Mounting debt, steep decline in reserves reasons behind heavy reliance on external creditors

Lacunae exist as AML, CFT regulations do not apply to Level-0 and Level-1 accounts

Work on right to acquire assets and revised valuation rates delayed

Applicant claims Shaukat Hussain Abbasi elevated to key post in violation of SC order