Pakistan is to get a $20.8 million soft loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to improve basic services in North-West Frontier Province, the Philippines-based lender said on Tuesday.
The bank approved the loan a week after announcing it would boost its development aid to the country by 51.7 per cent this year to $950 million to help Islamabad cope with difficulties associated with the war on neighboring Afghanistan.

The soft loan to the provincial government will finance high-priority basic infrastructure schemes involving water supply, sewerage and sanitation, drainage, solid waste management, and local access roads, a bank statement said. It is payable over 32 years at minimal interest. Bureau Report