Pakistan’s annual budget, which was announced over the weekend, aims to narrow the budget deficit by one-two percentage points of GDP by mid-2011. While GDP is likely to accelerate and lift tax revenues, we believe that a new IMF programme will almost certainly be needed once the current facility ends in December.
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