Islamabad:
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that daily protests left no stone unturned to overthrow the government, yet we managed to improve the country’s economy, we achieved the MF’s tax target for December.
Addressing the meeting of the federal cabinet, he said that the new year will be a good year for Pakistan. Yesterday, the Udan Pakistan program was inaugurated. This project will prove to be a good omen for the new year. Ahsan Iqbal, Ishaq Dar and The efforts of other officials are commendable.
He said that we have to go further and we should appreciate the work that has been done in terms of ADR, which was led by the Deputy Prime Minister, as a result of this effort, revenues of 72 billion rupees have come to the treasury, our target and revenue collection. There is a big gap between, despite this, Chairman FBR is also worthy of praise for his efforts, the revenue target for December has been achieved, it also includes a contribution of 72 billion rupees. has achieved 97 target which is our commitment with IF.
He said that he went to Karachi Port in July and was told that we are building real estate at such and such a place. Funding of six million dollars was provided by Bill Gates Foundation, Chairman FBR Rashid Langriyal worked hard and now we can say that the work at Karachi Port has accelerated. It is a faceless interaction. Contingency time at Karachi port has been reduced by 39%.
He said that at this time the smuggling of sugar to Afghanistan has become zero due to which we were able to export sugar. The credit goes to Federal Minister Rana Tanveer, the institutions and the Army Chief who made smuggling zero. Smuggling of oil has also reduced drastically.
He said that remittances in five months of the current financial year are up to 15 billion dollars, if this pace continues, this value will reach 35 billion dollars by the end of the year, which will be the biggest record in the country’s history.
He said that despite the sit-ins, we achieved success, the opponents left no stone unturned to overthrow our government in nine months, but with the grace of Allah, we managed to bring stability to the country’s economy. There is transparency, nine months have passed but the common man is also testifying that no scandal has come to light.
The Prime Minister said that terrorism has come back twice, the Afghan government decided to leave them, if not thousands, at least hundreds of people, many of whom came here, our security agencies are fighting them. Young men are cultivating the country with their blood by giving martyrdoms every day.
