Pakistan gets $900 million financial aid from World Bank

Washington: The World Bank approved an aid package of $900 million to Pakistan for improving its state of education and livelihood in rural areas.

The financial package will be used to help improve education in the two Pakistani states of Punjab and Sindh and to further scale up a community driven development project active in 35,000 villages throughout the country.

The World Bank also approved $250 million for the Third Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF-III) Project for poverty alleviation programme.