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World Bank cancels $100 million loan for Pakistan

The international financial institution, World Bank has cancelled a $100 million loan to Pakistan that was meant to be for a natural gas efficiency project.
●    The loan was cancelled, as the gas distribution company that was responsible for the project, failed to make any progress in achieving its developmental objectives and showed very less interest in the project overall.
●    According to a report by the World Bank, failure of the project resulted in its closure. With it, the levels of unaccounted-for gas increased in the country. 
●    UFG mostly arises from broken or leaking pipelines and gas theft, which happens through tampered metres and illegal connections.
●    Apart from this, the international institution also stated that the company should have been more cautious and the country should not have initiated such a project in the first place when the company-in-charge itself showed such less interest.
 

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