Talks between IMF, Pakistan 'rescheduled'.

WASHINGTON -- The schedule for talks between Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been readjusted but the negotiations are continuing, official sources in Washington say.

Media reports, however, claim that the talks that were scheduled to begin last week have been postponed till the third week of November.

According to these reports, the talks would resume after Pakistan fulfilled its pledge to adjust sales tax on petroleum products and took other measures required under a loan agreement revived earlier this year.

But official sources, who spoke to Dawn, said the talks were rescheduled after last month's release of a World Bank report on flood damages in Pakistan.

The damage, loss and needs assessment calls for 'building back better', based...