ISLAMABAD:Newly-appointed Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Thursday said that he was leaving for Washington DC, where he was expected to meet the officials of International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the revival of a loan facility.

The loan facility was stalled following the premature end of the Imran Khan government earlier this month. Before leaving for Washington DC, Miftah Ismail tweeted that the purpose of the visit was to “put back on track our IMF program that PTI and IK (Imran Khan) derailed, thus endangering our economy”. He said he would travel to London on the way, where he would meet PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.