Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin claims Pakistan is the cheapest among 139 countries in the world.
Minister shares screenshots of latest cost of living index on official Twitter handle.
Cost of living in Pakistan is 71.52% lower on average than in the United States, stated database.
Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin claimed Sunday that Pakistan is the cheapest among 139 countries in the world, however, the opposition leaders rejected the claim and severely criticised the government over the unprecedented inflation inflicted on people during the past three-and-a-half years, The News reported.
Taking to Twitter, the minister shared the screenshots of a latest cost of living index on his official Twitter handle. He said Pakistan was the cheapest country among the 139 countries in the world.
In response to the finance minister's statement, President of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) Maulana Fazlur Rehman questioned how the government could claim that Pakistan was a cheap country to live in when people were committing suicide as a result of price hikes, joblessness, and the country's extremely high cost of living.
He said that such assertions contradict the reality on ground, and that the 'selected' government will be deposed soon with the help of the people.
According to the finance minister, Numbeo's — the world's largest cost of living database — deemed Pakistan the least expensive country among 139 countries, and it is not the "government's claims." According to the...
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