New Delhi: Pakistan’s external trade statistics has come under scrutiny by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has called on Islamabad to address roughly $11-billion worth of discrepancies in trade data furnished by two government agencies in the last couple of fiscal years.

The discrepancies found in the data for 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 fiscal years have raised questions about the credibility of Islamabad’s external indicators, and come at a time when Pakistan continues to rely on IMF funding to stabilise its economy.

The import data furnished by two different agencies—Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) and Pakistan Single Window (PSW)—for the 2023-2024 fiscal year had an almost $5.1 billion difference. PRAL’s data reported the total value of imports at roughly $5.1 bi

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