According to SBP's weekly statement here on Thursday, the foreign reserves held by State Bank on April 4, amounted $ 4.94302 billion and the net foreign reserves held by banks figured $ 4.77003 billion.
During the week, SBP's liquid foreign reserves decreased by $ 229 million to $ 4,943 million compared to $ 5,172 million in the previous week. The decrease in the Central Bank reserves is due to external debt servicing of $ 142 million including $ 109 million payment to International Monetary Fund ( IMF) on account of SBA and other official payments.
Over the same period, there was no major inflow from multilateral and bilateral sources, SBP declared.