By Ali Imran
ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said on Monday that PTI-led government under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan was trying to minimize the impact of global inflation on common people.
Talking to PTV News, he said that Pakistan was among those countries which kept agricultural, industrial and services sectors functional and intact amid the corona pandemic, adding that inflation is on the rise globally in the post Covid-19 scenario and every country is dealing with its economy according to its resources.
Farrukh said that government was committed to control inflation and provide immediate relief to the masses, adding that government was taking all possible steps to improve the national economy, which would create employment opportunities in future.
Earlier, State Minister for Information & Broadcasting Farrukh Habib said on Saturday that nobody would be allowed to go escort free and the Sharif family would have to be answerable to the state institutions as well as people about their loot and plunder.
Talking to the media during launching a book of prominent writer Nadeem Rizvi at Jinnah Hall
of District Council here, he said that Prime Minister Imran Khan was committed to take all
corrupt elements to task so that entire looted national wealth could be recovered from them.
He said that previous rulers had plundered national wealth with great impunity and now they
were using different tactics to divert the attention of general public from their accountability.
He said that funds of billions were transferred to the accounts of Sharif family including Shahbaz
Sharif but they were still reluctant to expose Masroor Anwar like people who deposited billions
of rupees in their accounts.
He said the opposition trumpeted negative propaganda against the PTI that it was ineligible
to handle the country as well as its economy”, but the time proved that PTI not only dragged
Pakistan from multifaceted crises but also put it on the road to progress and prosperity. Now,
due to prudent policies of the PTI government, the national economy had witnessed 5.37 per cent growth in the GDP during last fiscal year, he added.
He said that corona had badly jolted the entire economic situation in the world. The economies
even of developed countries started squeezing during COVID but on other hand, Prime Minister
Imran Khan adopted smart lockdown policy against complete closure of industries and other
sectors due to which the economy of Pakistan started growing up.
