ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister (PM) Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Saturday expressed confidence that Pakistan will come out of the economic quagmire, ARY News reported.
The caretaker prime minister passed these remarks during an interactive session with a delegation of students from Harvard, who are in Pakistan on a visit. The students had also interacted with Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir yesterday.
Responding to a question about Pakistan’s dependence on external financial institutions, PM Anwaarul Haq Kakar said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was “neither a friend nor a foe”.
The prime minister pointed out that that in Pakistan, about nine percent population was contributing towards GDP with their taxes.
“How to bring the undocumented economy, people in the tax net and how to invest in the human resources would be broadly focused during the short period of the caretaker government”, he said.
The caretaker PM also said Pakistan was gifted with the natural resources, which included not just mineral goods but also talented people, and expressed confidence that “these stars” would guide the country.
He said the government was focusing to produce the high-tech educated and skilled human resource and cited a couplet of Allama Iqbal in which he had hinted the importance of human resource through individual and collective efforts.
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