The IMF team called upon Chairman Imran Khan at his residence Friday.

The meeting was attended by IMF country chief Nathan Porter who joined virtually from Washington and Resident Representative Esther Perez who was physically present.

The meeting lasted for more than an hour.

PTI leader Hammad Azhar said on Friday night that an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team had visited his party’s chief, Imran Khan, at his residence in Lahore today where the two sides discussed a recent staff-level pact agreed between Pakistan and the global lender for the disbursement of $3 billion under a standby arrangement.

Azhar’s confirmation of the meeting between the PTI leadership and the IMF team came after the lender said earlier today that it was in the process of meeting major political parties in Pakistan to seek assurances of their support for key objective of the new deal.

Separately, Imran had also said today that he would be meeting an IMF delegation.

He revealed this during a court hearing — pertaining to May 9 riots — in Lahore today. Upon being asked to join the investigation in the case at 4pm today, the former prime minister had said he was unavailable to join the probe as he was scheduled to meet with a delegation from the IMF.