The load shedding and energy crisis would completely be wiped out by 2018 and more foreign investment will come into the country, said Minister Excise and Taxation Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman on Sunday.
He said that the Punjab government is making efforts to improve governance, establish rule of law, ensure merit-based and transparent recruitment, creation of one million jobs per year and ensure transparent and accountable governance.
He said that reforms are being pursued for better service delivery, improvement of fiscal and financial arrangements and facilitating greater private sector participation in the economy.
The minister said that Punjab’s vision is to revive growth and private sector investment to complement medium-term development framework 2014-18 and Punjab Growth Strategy to achieve the growth rate of 8 percent by 2018.
He said that overseas Pakistanis are the major source of earning foreign exchange and they are the country’s ambassadors in respective countries and the government is taking concrete steps for the welfare of overseas Pakistanis.
