# IMF reviews stall as Khan delays energy and fiscal prior actions

Date: 2022

## The fact

In early 2022 the IMF withheld a delayed EFF review as Khan’s government postponed energy-price and fiscal prior actions.

## Context

The 2019 EFF was still the envelope. Staff wanted cost-recovering tariffs. He faced a no-confidence arithmetic. Sharing with the finance ministry is not a reason to drop the political delay.

The 2019 approval is the neighbouring opening. Shehbaz’s May tariff shock is later.

Pakistan’s prime minister is elected by the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) and chairs the cabinet. He does not write IMF Executive Board minutes, Indian statutes, army operational orders, NAB judgments, or PBS CPI methodology. A maiden speech is not a Finance Act. A rally is not a gazette. A diplomatic cable is not a completed foreign coup. A tweet is not a statute.

## Evidence and sources

International Monetary Fund carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is fiscal-policy and [public-debt sustainability](/drivers/public-debt-sustainability): a completed review stall left reserves thinner into the no-confidence week.

## What is established and what is not

Established: an early-2022 IMF review stall over delayed prior actions during his premiership, independently reported.

Not established: that the Fund thereby caused the no-confidence, or a unique later default coefficient from February.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

IMF staff withheld the review. The Board had approved in 2019.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies IMF reviews stall as Khan delays energy and fiscal prior actions, not a later speech about IMF reviews stall as Khan delays energy and fiscal prior actions.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. IMF reviews stall as Khan delays energy and fiscal prior actions on 2022-02-02 is not a licence to treat every later International Monetary Fund communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average IMF reviews stall as Khan delays energy and fiscal prior actions into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government delayed prior actions. IMF staff withheld the review. The Board had approved in 2019. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Imran Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan

## Drivers

- Fiscal-Policy Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/fiscal-policy-sustainability
- Energy-Price Volatility: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-price-volatility

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/imf-delays-pakistan-review-energy-subsidies-2022-02-02/
- https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/PAK

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-imf-stall-2022