Pakistan has rejected claims made in an Intercept report that it sold arms and ammunition to Ukraine as part of a strategy to secure a crucial $3 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Foreign Office Spokesperson, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, dismissed the report as “baseless and fabricated,” emphasizing that Pakistan maintained a policy of “strict neutrality” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The Intercept report alleged that the arms sales were intended to support the Ukrainian military, marking Pakistani involvement in a conflict where it faced U.S. pressure to take sides. Pakistan’s IMF Standby Arrangement was described as being based on economic reforms rather than arms sales.