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Govt says achieved highest growth rate

F.P. Report

ISLAMABAD: Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, while unveiling the Economic Survey for the outgoing fiscal year (2017-18), said that Pakistan had achieved the highest growth rate of 5.8 percent in the past thirteen years.

Addressing a press conference with Prime Minister’s Adviser on Finance Miftah Ismail, he said that the national exchequer was empty when they took the power.

“Now the country is heading towards progress,” he said.

He said that the government could have achieved a 6.1 percent growth rate had the country not faced uncertainty.

“The government launched security operations through its own sources,” he said.

The minister said that agriculture, industry and services sectors had grown by 3.81 percent, 5.8 percent and 6.43 percent.

 

The Frontier Post

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