ISLAMABAD: Minister for Finance Shaukat Tareen has said US has to pay Pakistan USD 2.10 billion in cooperation for war on terrorism, Geo news reported.

He said half of the money will be deposited to Pakistan by the mid of March.

Talking to media after the Task Force conference organized in view of Private Sector Development, he said we have resolved the issues of US visas and now a total of 1.30 billion US dollars will be deposited to Pakistan in the month of March for fighting against terrorism.

Government and private sectors are importing sugar in country according to requirement while the wheat stock is also in abundance in country but the corrupt administrative matters are causing the inflation at alarming level.

Ruling out reports of his resignation, he said neither will I run away nor resign.

Responding to a question regarding loadshedding, Shukat Tareen said the government is already providing 80 to 100 billion rupees in terms of power subsidy.

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