Pakistan, Oct. 14 -- Pakistan will continue to "diversify its funding sources," Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb said, hinting that his government could issue more Chinese yuan-based bonds and tap the Japanese market for samurai bond issuances.

Aurangzeb spoke to Nikkei Asia on Monday on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, which kicked off in Bangkok on the same day.

In mid-May, Pakistan issued its first panda bond worth 1.75 billion yuan ($261 million) as part of a 7.2 billion yuan program, with the Asian Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank providing partial guarantees. A panda bond is a yuan-denominated bond issued by a foreign entity to raise money in Ch...