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Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin sounded upbeat after talking to IMF officials to soften up their calls for stringent measures by Pakistan to fully stabilize its economy before it treads on the growth path.
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin sounded upbeat after talking to IMF officials to soften up their calls for stringent measures by Pakistan to fully stabilize its economy before it treads on the growth path.
He hinted that IMF has shown “flexibility” and supported his plan of action to stimulate growth without resorting to tough measures.
IMF spokesman Gerry Rice, in his press conference through video link, was not as unequivocal and forthcoming as Tarin but maintained that the international lending agency stands ready to continue to support Pakistan as to achieving debt sustainability and high and sustainable growth.
Separate budget for South Punjab to address deprivation, says Qureshi
June 28, 2021
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday said that the PTI-led government has come up with a separate budget for South Punjab for the first time in the country’s history.
The comments came during a press conference the foreign minister held after visiting the South Punjab Secretariat. He said that work on the city’s master plan is underway, while a separate budget of Rs186 billion has been set aside for South Punjab as per the government s promise, adding that the budget will solve the long-standing deprivation that the region had been facing.
June 28, 2021
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday said that the PTI-led government has come up with a separate budget for South Punjab for the first time in the country’s history.
The comments came during a press conference the foreign minister held after visiting the South Punjab Secretariat.
He said that work on the city’s master plan is underway, while a separate budget of Rs186 billion has been set aside for South Punjab as per the government’s promise, adding that the budget will solve the long-standing deprivations that the region had been facing.
The minister added that in case the allocated money is not spent on a certain scheme, it will be utilised for another scheme in South Punjab.
June 28, 2021
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday said that the PTI-led government has come up with a separate budget for South Punjab for the first time in the country s history.
The comments came during a press conference the foreign minister held after visiting the South Punjab Secretariat.
He said that work on the city s master plan is underway, while a separate budget of Rs186 billion has been set aside for South Punjab as per the government s promise, adding that the budget will solve the long-standing deprivations that the region had been facing.
The minister added that in case the allocated money is not spent on a certain scheme, it will be utilised for another scheme in South Punjab.
GWADAR: National Party president Dr Abdul Malik Baloch on Sunday demanded an immediate ban on all foreign fishing trawlers at Makran coast.
While terming the Chinese and inter-provincial trawlers hunting at Balochistan coast ‘illegal’, the NP chief said they were depriving the local population of their livelihoods besides depleting marine resources.
The National Party had been staging protest demonstrations in every tehsil of Gwadar district for the past several days against the hunting by foreign trawlers, Dr Malik said, adding that the government had paid little attention to the grievances of the local people.
He said ‘genocide of marine life’ could not be accepted.