Pro-growth budget reflects PML-N’s vision for prosperous Pakistan: PM

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said the pro-growth budget of the government reflected its vision for a prosperous and developed Pakistan.

In a message from London, Prime Minister Nawaz said that in the past three years, the government had worked tirelessly to improve the lives of the average Pakistani and stabilise a nation in tatters. He also appreciated and complimented Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and his team for presenting a pro-growth budget for the new financial year.

He said that the PML-N government had inherited hyper inflation and financial indiscipline of the highest degree, inhibiting the working class from living lives of dignity, and turned things around to cut our deficit in half, grow the GDP at a 4.7% per-annum rate, improve our balance of trade, bring inflation down to a ten year low and bring tax collection up to historic levels.

He said: “In the next fiscal year, we have committed to not only replicate this success, but one-up it. We have chosen to invest in important project Gwadar, a port with increasing international importance with CPEC on the horizon.”

The prime minister said the government has also committed to investing in infrastructure, roads, railways and the Karachi-Lahore motorway, making us more connected than ever and creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs.

“We have increased our allocations in social welfare cash grants programs like BISP, to make sure that millions of poor people, regardless of their income, can live lives of dignity and can break the shackles of poverty,” he maintained.

He said that the government had also invested in numerous power projects to develop a country where livelihoods are no longer dependent on the whims of power outages. “There is nothing wrong in our country that can’t be fixed with what is right in country, and that is exactly our plan,” he concluded.