PM says economic indicators improving with each passing day

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Thursday said the challenges the government inherited in 2013 were enormous but with the policies of the government now all economic indicators in Pakistan are improving with each passing day.

The prime minister said the present government had set the priorities such as energy, education, economy and eliminating extremism, an official statement said.

He said this while talking to a World Bank delegation led by Ms Annette Dixon, Vice President, which called on at the PM House the other day.

The prime minister said Pakistan’s macro economic situation was improving, inflation was at the lowest level in past 13 years, and foreign exchange reserves were considerably up while fiscal deficit was down.

He thanked World Bank for continued support for Pakistan. The prime minister said the government had taken decisive steps against terrorism and extremism. Pakistan had suffered enormously at the hands of terrorism both in terms of financial losses as well as loss of human lives. “We have broken the back of terrorists by destroying their sanctuaries and hideouts,” he added.