Pakistan's central bank forex reserves increase 131 mln USD

ISLAMABAD, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Foreign exchange reserves of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) have increased 131 million U.S. dollars, the central bank said in a statement on Thursday.

During the week ending on Nov. 22, total foreign exchange reserves of the bank reached about 11.4 billion dollars, the bank said.

Net foreign reserves held by commercial banks came in at around 4.6 billion dollars.

Total liquid foreign reserves held by the South Asian country stood at over 16 billion dollars.